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Even before 2005, I noticed problems in the bee population when I first got into the pest control field as a Pest Professional.   For the company, it was cost efficient and quicker to simply spray or dust the hive with chemicals, come back the next day when they are dead, and clean up the carnage.  Problem solved - and for a little over $100-$200 billed to the customer in which they returned a couple hours pay (at most) for my time.

Not thinking a whole lot of the actual damage I was doing to the ecosystem or environment and since I needed a job to support a family the food chain won out over the need to preserve the bee population.

However, as I learned more about the honey bee (being in the business) I learned more about the destruction pest control (exterminators) were doing.  Do I believe in pest control companies? Absolutely!  However, I also believe if there’s a more reasonable way to take care of a problem it should be done more appropriately.  I also understand that businesses need to make a living or they go out of business.  So for those pest professionals that read this – nothing personal – I understand where your coming from.  And certainly, some pests (insects) should be exterminated, if not for their nuisance in residential areas, for safety means.

TODAY: On to better things – I am now an advocate for the Honey Bees and have started the Wildlie Rescue and relocation Project.  I have educated myself extensively regarding bees and now find the need to preserve what is easily taken away.  In 2004, I started a company that specializes in LIVE BEE EXTRACTIONS (in structure and bee swarms).

From a booming “5 million hive population” to now – nearly 2.5 million across the nation (2)(3), another problem has mounted an attack on the honey bee.   The condition is called: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Something right out of what sounds to be a medical dictionary. However, the condition is just as severe.   Now it is a virus that causes “Israeli Acute Paralysis” (IAPV).  A single celled organism that spreads like the common cold among adult communal bees during pollination. Bacterium Paenibacillus Larvae, is yet another disease infecting bee larvae and is responsible for killing the emerging “baby bees”.  A spore that is spread by nurse bees within the hive.

The IAPV originated in Isreal in 2002 (2) but became a problem in 2006 - 2007 and has launched the largest scale attack on the honey bee today.   People will understand the aftermath of Colony Collaspe Disease in extremely elevated crop prices next year.  An estimated $15 billion dollars have been lost due to crop non-pollination and damage from NOT having the honey bees around to do their job (3)(5)

“Diana Cox-Foster, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania. Dr. Cox-Foster (interviewed by Earthfiles) that she was very surprised by the number of viruses - some unidentified - she was finding in the honey bee bodies given to her to study in what is now called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

96% of the CCD-affected honey bees also had a virus dubbed "Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV)." Their research was published for the first time on Thursday, September 7, 2007, in Science Express, the online version of the journal, Science(4).”