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June 9, 2015 at 4:08 pm #817642
wakefloodParticipantSo there’s serious concern about bees yet lots of disagreement about the cause and what to do. The neonics are convinced, others are not.
Anyone with thoughts?
“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.” – Albert Einstein
June 9, 2015 at 8:56 pm #824804
JoBParticipantI don’t have the answers
but i have tried to plant my own small solution
lots of pollinators in my yard:)
June 9, 2015 at 10:31 pm #824805
anonymeParticipantPesticides, pure and simple. The rest of the civilized world has seen the obvious, and acted. I think it’s also possible that bees don’t respond to genetically modified plants in the same way. As long as Dow and Monsanto are in charge of our public policy, don’t expect anything to be done about it. A supervisor at the WSDA told me flat out that this sh!t should not be used, but that chemical companies have gutted their ability to enforce or restrict pesticide use.
Like JoB, I try to do as much as possible for them on my own little plot of land, but it doesn’t do much good when the same bees fly next door to the land of Agent Orange and end up poisoned.
June 10, 2015 at 12:02 am #824806
wakefloodParticipantI feel that way too, anonyme. I cold-turkeyed my half acre off 40 yrs. of chemlife when I bought this place in ’97. And then I see across the way the folks who use nukes indiscriminately and I wonder if it matters?
June 10, 2015 at 1:02 am #824807
VBDParticipantThe best evidence to date indicates it’s likely to be a class of insecticides called Neonicotinoids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid
By the way, none of the companies manufacturing and distributing Neonicotinoids are American, although Shell was first to discover the basic formula.
June 10, 2015 at 1:10 am #824808
JoBParticipantall we can do is give them a safe place to eat to their heart’s content..
it’s good for them and not bad for us either
like the story of the kid walking down the beach and picking up stranded starfish to throw them back into the ocean
when told his effort was futile because he couldn’t save all of them he replied that it mattered a great deal to those he could
June 10, 2015 at 5:10 pm #824809
JTBParticipantI’ve noticed a big decrease in the number of bumble bees frequenting our fuchsias in the last two years.
June 10, 2015 at 5:45 pm #824810
wakefloodParticipantDitto.
June 10, 2015 at 9:55 pm #824811
anonymeParticipantDefinitely seeing a decrease in bees, although I have quite recently seen clusters of them in death throes on the ground.
I’ve tried having logical discussions with the poisoners, to no avail. Even otherwise intelligent people don’t seem to get it. They appear incapable of tying their own actions to such monumental consequences. I’ve even said to them “Do you like eating food, or have you found a way to live without it?
Without bees, we starve. Period. You’d think that would get their attention, but apparently not.
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