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kenneal - lagger

Please sign this petition to get the government to continue the ban on the use of neonics to help save the bees, butterflies and some birds as well.

I have recently started bee keeping and have been doing a course run by our local bee keepers association and given by a commercial bee keeper. As he moves his bees every year onto oil seed rape fields I asked him if he had noticed any ill effects from the once neonic treated rape on his bees. He said that it had made no difference to his bees and he wasn't worried about whether or not neonics were used. Most commercial bee keepers have the same attitude.

I have signed the petition as I believe that we should be using less of the toxic chemicals anyway but it is worrying that the petitioners are quoting science when the topical evidence says that the science is wrong.

Large numbers of bees have not survived the winter in our area and the blame is being put on a bad summer last year and a late spring this year. There have been nearly sixty hives lost in our Association area alone out of, I think, about 120 members. Several members have lost all their two or three hives. Are neonics implicated in some way, or pesticides in general or is climate change the culprit?
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woodburner · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 3626

Done.

PS you can get your own supply of neonics here http://www.diy.com/departments/provado-bug-control/228510_BQ.prd

So if anybody belongs to the halfwit group that thinks their insignificant little domestic trophy plant is worth poisioning the insect world for, that's where to shop. You can also get loads of glyphosate too. That way you can ruin the soil as well.
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emordnilap

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 4:00 pm Post subject:

I've just seen that Bayer is proposing to take over Monsanto to form a monster corporation which could control sales of seed, fertiliser and pesticides to farmers from a monopoly position.
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"When the last tree is cut down, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find out that you cannot eat money". --The Cree Indians

AutomaticEarth · Joined: 08 Nov 2010 Posts: 823

Done as well.

Just FYI - I had to give a silly presentation today. I gave two examples of brand recognition.

I used Apple as a brand that is well known and enjoys showing it off. The other example I gave was to show a bag of Roundup weed killer, and pointed out that the Monsanto logo is not easy to see - I had to point this out. The other one was to show an Xbox carton from 2010. The Microsoft logo was nowhere to be seen.

A bit off topic but there you go.

emordnilap · Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 10:17 am Post subject:

emordnilap · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 11:02 am Post subject:

Insect numbers down by 75% in 25 years

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:51 pm Post subject:

New Groundbreaking Research Shows Glyphosate Persists in Soil.

So Monsanto has been lying to us all along. Surprise! Surprise!
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"When the last tree is cut down, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find out that you cannot eat money". --The Cree Indians

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:18 pm Post subject:

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:23 pm Post subject:

What I notice most of all is the lack of hover flies. We seem to have plenty of various species of bumble bees on our lavender but there don't seem to be the hover flies on the fruit trees and bushes.
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"When the last tree is cut down, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find out that you cannot eat money". --The Cree Indians

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:58 pm Post subject:

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:09 pm Post subject:

Just to make it easy, you can get your MP's email address here, and don't forget to add your own address and phone number.

http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/
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"When the last tree is cut down, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find out that you cannot eat money". --The Cree Indians

emordnilap · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 2:21 pm Post subject:

Whilst our own acre is a-buzz with wildlife it's a drop in the ocean of course - but it does highlight how individuals can help.

Trouble is, the worst individuals claim most of the land!
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"Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings. Well, animals aren’t lesser beings, they’re just like us. So I say fụck the Buddhists" - Bjork

emordnilap · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 3:26 pm Post subject:

Report (pdf) from the Pesticide Action Network into pesticide residues in the food provided by the school fruit and vegetable scheme. Head shaking. 84% tested positive for one residue. 66% tested positive for multiple residues.