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More.Than.Honey.2012.DVDrip.XviD.DOCUMENTARY-UnKnOwN

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2263058/

Video:
Codec H264 MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution 720x576, 50 fps
Duration: 1:31:12
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Codec MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3 (mpga)
Sample rate 44100 Hz, bitrate 128 kb/s
Spoken language: German; English
Subtitles: English

More than honey is a documentary on the current state of honey bees in the world.

Over the past 15 years, numerous colonies of bees have been decimated throughout
the world, but the causes of this disaster remain unknown. Depending on the world
region, 50% to 90% of all local bees have disappeared, and this epidemic is still
spreading from beehive to beehive -- all over the planet. Everywhere, the same
scenario is repeated: billions of bees leave their hives, never to return. No
bodies are found in the immediate surroundings, and no visible predators can be
located.

In the US, the latest estimates suggest that a total of 1.5 million (out of 2.4
million total beehives) have disappeared across 27 states. In Germany, according
to the national beekeepers association, one fourth of all colonies have been
destroyed, with losses reaching up to 80% on some farms. The same phenomenon has
been observed in Switzerland, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Poland
and England, where this syndrome has been nicknamed "the Mary Celeste
Phenomenon", after a ship whose crew vanished in 1872.

Scientists have found a name for the phenomenon that matches its scale, "colony
collapse disorder", and they have good reason to be worried: 80% of plant species
require bees to be pollinated. While bumble bees and Mason bees are pollinators,
they cannot perform the intensive pollination that our modern agriculture demands
-- and 1/3 of our food is dependent on honey bee pollination. Apis mellifera (the
honey bee), which appeared on Earth 60 million years before man and is as
indispensable to the economy as it is to man's survival.

Should we blame pesticides or even medication used to combat them? Maybe look at
parasites such as varroa mites? New viruses? Travelling stress? The multiplication
of electromagnetic waves disturbing the magnetite nanoparticles found in the
bees' abdomen? So far, it looks like a combination of all these agents has been
responsible for the weakening of the bees' immune defenses.

Fifty years ago, Einstein had already insisted on the symbiotic relationship
binding these pollen gatherers to mankind: "If bees were to disappear from the
globe", he predicted, "mankind would only have four years left to live."