BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6409905:Event:3019 DTSTAMP:20130521T184611Z SUMMARY:NMBKA presents the Movie \"The Strange Disappearance of the th e Bees\" DESCRIPTION:The Guild Theater will show \"The Strange Disappearance of the Bees\" on Saturday afternoon, August 11 at 1- 2:30 pm in Albuquer que, NM. $5 donation, free for members of NMBKA. Cash or Check.\n\nLes Crowder will begin the showing with a brief talk about beautiful solu tions to the problems of bees, agriculture and global warming.  \n\n\ "The Strange Disappearance of the Bees\" is a frightening documentary about how mass deaths of bees have recently swept all over the world. Increasingly each spring, beekeepers open their hives to find entire c olonies wiped out. And beekeepers aren't the only ones who are worried . Bees pollinate at least a third of the world's crops. If the dramati c decline in worldwide bee populations continues, essential food crops could disappear, along with entire ecosystems.\nBringing together the latest scientific research,\"The Strange Disappearance of the Bees\" looks at the dramatic colony collapses in beehives around the world. T here is no one smoking gun responsible for killing bees. Instead, a co nstellation of factors is stressing bees more than ever before: from p arasitic mites that infect them with deadly viruses, to novel pesticid es incorporated into the very cells of plants, and industrial operatio ns that truck millions of bees all over the country.\nCalifornia's Imp erial Valley provides an almost perfect storm of these factors, with 3 6 billion bees providing essential pollination for nearly a million ac res of almond trees. When the trees are in bloom, the Valley looks lik e a lush paradise. But it's a pesticide-intensive environment in which bees are under such strain they need to be artificially fed—and eve n then, many perish.\nBut bees don't have to live under these conditio ns, and beekeepers don't need to adopt them in order to succeed. In Sc otland, Willie Robson has become one of the country's most productive beekeepers, using natural methods to breed and raise his insects. Rath er than breeding bees for docility, he encourages natural selection th at boosts bees' immunity.\nFeaturing stunning photography, \"The Stran ge Disappearance of the Bees\" takes us right into beehives and onto p lants along with the pollinators. It also surveys the science through conversations with top researchers such as entomologist May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.\nThere may be n o easy answers as to why bee colonies are collapsing, but this documen tary makes a convincing case that the current industrial agricultural model may to blame—killing off the very pollinators that it requires in order to survive. As Ehrlich puts it, bees have the task of keepin g the world alive. If they go in sufficient numbers, we may well follo w.\n\nView Trailer\n\nFor more information visit http://www.nmbeekeepe rs.org/events/movie-showing DTSTART:20120811T200000Z DTEND:20120811T213000Z CATEGORIES:movie, showing LOCATION:Guild Theater WEBSITE:http://www.guildcinema.com/ URL:http://www.guildcinema.com/ CONTACT:505-255-1848 ORGANIZER:NMBKA ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/R04Yb8ftQ6IDS Y7f0pIvqVY1PDBeWUx34zxMNdVj3gvYYnpLo4dZQg-P7jPdejyqtgEvWbCwJB7w74tmkLv Jr0dU9OE9cRm6/SDBNMBKA.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Joe Wesb rook":http://www.nmbeekeepers.org/profile/JoeWesbrook END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR