a personal and, quite frankly, biased exploration of pesticide use in my neighborhood and on my planet
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Bees
Haagen Daas is helping to publicize the plight of our not-so-common-anymore honeybees. Regardless of the seamy reality of the uneasy relationship between philanthropy and advertising, it's a worthy cause and Haagen Daas has created a pleasantly educational website.
I really wish that news would get out that native bees are in need of help too! CCD gets a lot of press, but little is said of the extremely important natives that are in difficulty, as are other pollinators exposed to pesticides and pollutants. Thanks for mentioning this HD link. :-D
It all started in spring 2009 when I noticed that almost every residence in my suburban town had one of those scary "Pesticide Application" signs on the front lawn. And then my father, a lifelong gardener from a family of gardeners, mentioned to me that he now has to pollinate all of his vegetable plants by poking his fingers into the flowers because he has so few bees in his garden... I've seen more of these signs lately than I care to count. I'm exhausted.
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I really wish that news would get out that native bees are in need of help too! CCD gets a lot of press, but little is said of the extremely important natives that are in difficulty, as are other pollinators exposed to pesticides and pollutants. Thanks for mentioning this HD link. :-D
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