Comments on: Neonicotinoids – Silent Summer Without Bees http://ricehoppers.net/2008/12/neonicotinoids-%e2%80%93-silent-summer-without-bees/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: K.L. Heong http://ricehoppers.net/2008/12/neonicotinoids-%e2%80%93-silent-summer-without-bees/comment-page-1/#comment-16 K.L. Heong Wed, 06 May 2009 09:02:24 +0000 http://ricehoppers.net/?p=121#comment-16 Here is a response from Dr Sogawa There is no English edition or translation of the book "Neonicotinoids, Devilish Novel Pesticides and subtitled Silent Summer Without Bees". I can only inform you the book and publisher information. Book title: "Neonicotinoids, Devilish Novel Pesticides: Silent Summer Without Bees" (tentative translation by myself) Author: Mr. Shunsuke Funase Published in: 2008 Book code: ISBN 978-4-88320-432-8 Publisher: Sangokan, Co.Ltd Address: 221 Sakamachi, shinjyuku, Tokyo Tel: 03-3226-0035, Fax: 03-3226-0170, HP: http://www.sangokan.com/ According to TV and newspaper, the CCD is posing a serious problem to agriculture in Japan. Pollination of greenhouse plants such as strawberry and melon are mostly dependent upon the rental beehives. However, since the last autumn, beekeepers cannot supply the demand of beehives for greenhouse farmers, because of widespread CCDs. Bee researchers pointed out three major reasons, namely (1) parasitic mite, (2) pesticides, and (3) shortage of importation of the queen bees from Australia. Here is a response from Dr Sogawa

There is no English edition or translation of the book
“Neonicotinoids, Devilish Novel Pesticides and subtitled Silent Summer
Without Bees”. I can only inform you the book and publisher
information.

Book title: “Neonicotinoids, Devilish Novel Pesticides: Silent Summer
Without Bees” (tentative translation by myself)
Author: Mr. Shunsuke Funase
Published in: 2008
Book code: ISBN 978-4-88320-432-8
Publisher: Sangokan, Co.Ltd
Address: 221 Sakamachi, shinjyuku, Tokyo
Tel: 03-3226-0035, Fax: 03-3226-0170, HP: http://www.sangokan.com/

According to TV and newspaper, the CCD is posing a serious problem to
agriculture in Japan. Pollination of greenhouse plants such as
strawberry and melon are mostly dependent upon the rental beehives.
However, since the last autumn, beekeepers cannot supply the demand of
beehives for greenhouse farmers, because of widespread CCDs. Bee
researchers pointed out three major reasons, namely (1) parasitic
mite, (2) pesticides, and (3) shortage of importation of the queen
bees from Australia.

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