http://www.oregonlive.com/envi...

http://www.xerces.org/2013/06/...

It's a darn shame! I just don't understand why this country can't clean up its act on unsafe pesticides and GMO crops!

One of our members, tinpins, posted about it in her blog as well as it happening in Canada. See:
http://garden.org/blogs/view/t...

the bottom half of her blog dated July 9, 2013

That is so very sad!

Well, Linda's signature line sums it up pretty darn well. I copied it below.

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
E. B. White

E. B. White had one of those great minds and he was quite an author. I really believe in what he said in that quotation. Mankind has destroyed too much of the natural world already. It's such a shame!

I've been saying for a very long time that we humans are destroying this planet.

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***WEB REPORT*** PERSON ADMITTED THAT HE POURED 25 GALLONS OF "ROUNDUP" PESTICIDE ON THE GRAVEL DRIVEWAY. WHEN IT RAINS THIS AREA DRAINS ONTO MY PROPERTY TO CHESAPEAKE BAY. THE CHEMICALS KILLED THE GRASS AROUND MY CHILDREN'S PLAYSET. THIS POSES A THREAT TO OUR HEALTH. I HAVE PHOTOS DOCUMENTING HIS ACTIONS.

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I don't know how long this driveway is or what was growing in it but 25 gallons of RU is a lot.

Just today I received an email from one of the organizations that gives me heads up on a variety of problems that need to be addressed. It was about the pesticides that are killing off bees. I signed a petition about it.
http://org.credoaction.com/pet...
I'll check out that url also, dormantsrule!

Thanks Linda and signed.

Thanks to both of you! Subscribed to dormantsrule's link & signed the petition on Linda's link.

Frogs ingest pesticides from agriculture fields 100 miles away

http://www.latimes.com/news/sc...

Radar antennae reveal how disease and pesticides are harming bees navigation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gar...

Retail garden plants intended to draw bees may harm them - By Erika Bolstad McClatchy Washington Bureau

"...The Pesticide Research Institute found that seven of 13 types of garden plants purchased at top retailers contained neurotoxic pesticides that could harm or kill bees and other pollinators...."


Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201...

Thank you for the link dormantsrule. I have been wondering for some time now if honey has become bad for us. After all, the bees produce honey from the nectar of these "toxic" plants.

Recently, a native plant group in a nearby town was trying to find caterpillar-safe milkweed plants to buy. It turns out it's just almost impossible. Of the two native plant nurseries in the area, only one verified they truly don't use pesticides on the milkweed at all, but that one couldn't supply many of the milkweed species they wanted this year. They were working with an organization that grows milkweeds for the Monarchs, but then the organization's grower sprayed the milkweed plants when beetles showed up that eats milkweeds. Don't know...it pretty much is true that people need to grow their own plants if they want plants that are truly safe for the insects...or for us, for that matter. Darn shame, too. I'm going to collect Texas Milkweed seeds this year for that one native plant grower that grows pesticide-free milkweed. Doesn't look like I'll have a lot of it...the high heat this summer made the plants shut down on producing seeds, except for a single pllant. Maybe they'll flower again when the heat ramps down in the fall.

Kudos to you Linda for doing what you can to improve the situation.