Pollinating Insects
Jul 3, 2017 09:20:43 #
jamer wrote:
Monsanto is a word that comes to mind.
Way to go--blame Monsanto for everything.
Happy with all that food on your table in this world of exploding population? Monsanto has a large part of being responsible for that. Get rid of Monsanto and the other agricultural big boys like them, and see what happens to the world's food supply. If you want to place some blame for the dying bees, look around your neighborhoods for all your friends and neighbors over-spraying any and everything so a bug won't bite them or their pretty flowers won't have a hole in the leaves. That's where the biggest problem is--overused yard and lawn sprays.
Jul 3, 2017 09:33:37 #
jaymatt wrote:
Way to go--blame Monsanto for everything. img src... (show quote)
You make a good point.
Jul 3, 2017 12:09:41 #
Bees dye naturally, they only have a life span of about 20-30 days, so it's normal in the morning to find dead one around the nest, my buddy has a refrigerator to keep them dormant true the warm up of winter and couple time a month he sweep the floor, he keep couple hundred hives, and loan them to orchard true the summer
Jul 3, 2017 12:43:18 #
Remember when we were younger and we would have a rain the puddles would be ringed with yellow and white sulfur butterflies getting a drink. I haven't seen that in over 20 years.
Got to thinking about my dog. I let him out in the back yard and he uses only one location to do his bathroom business. Never where he eats or sleeps. Unfortunately humans are willing to spread their 'crap' everywhere including where they eat and sleep and do anything else.
Got to thinking about my dog. I let him out in the back yard and he uses only one location to do his bathroom business. Never where he eats or sleeps. Unfortunately humans are willing to spread their 'crap' everywhere including where they eat and sleep and do anything else.
Jul 3, 2017 15:15:24 #
jaymatt wrote:
Way to go--blame Monsanto for everything. img src... (show quote)
Monsanto IS TO BLAME for so much wrong doing in the American environment. Seems to be their business to to poison us ad our whole world around us.
Jul 3, 2017 15:16:43 #
nikon_jon wrote:
Remember when we were younger and we would have a rain the puddles would be ringed with yellow and white sulfur butterflies getting a drink. I haven't seen that in over 20 years.
Got to thinking about my dog. I let him out in the back yard and he uses only one location to do his bathroom business. Never where he eats or sleeps. Unfortunately humans are willing to spread their 'crap' everywhere including where they eat and sleep and do anything else.
Got to thinking about my dog. I let him out in the back yard and he uses only one location to do his bathroom business. Never where he eats or sleeps. Unfortunately humans are willing to spread their 'crap' everywhere including where they eat and sleep and do anything else.
And you wonder who is the smarter of the two?
Jul 3, 2017 16:05:55 #
Jul 3, 2017 16:53:36 #
Toad Rancher
Loc: Central PA Mts.
As Rachel Carson said long ago, its not the insecticides themselves but the ways they are over used and misused that causes problems. The manufacturers are not entirely to blame. Herbicide use is also a large part of the problem. Butterfly larva tend to be very picky about what they eat and most of their favorite host plants are what we humans call weeds. Every time we mow or kill weeds we lose butterfly habitat. We like to plant garden flowers that attract the adult insects but we forget that they must be caterpillars first. Caterpillars need weeds. Just today I found my first Monarch larva of this season in a small milkweed patch on the edge of a wooded area near my home. Unusual for me, I didn't have a camera with me at the time.
Jul 3, 2017 17:17:43 #
whitewolfowner wrote:
Monsanto IS TO BLAME for so much wrong doing in the American environment. Seems to be their business to to poison us ad our whole world around us.
Jul 3, 2017 21:26:26 #
whitewolfowner wrote:
Monsanto IS TO BLAME for so much wrong doing in the American environment. Seems to be their business to to poison us ad our whole world around us.
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