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Post by kimmsr🕊 on May 21, 2015 14:31:13 GMT -5
Apparently the Mayans believed Bees were able to sense discord because they believed you needed to "talk sweetly to the Bees" and not fight in their presence or they would leave.
The President has suggested that more flowers be planted and fewer herbicides sprayed to increase the source of food for the Bees.
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Post by octave on May 21, 2015 14:53:45 GMT -5
The President should also not have appointed Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture: Opposition to the nomination [of Tom Vilsack] came from the Organic Consumers Association, which outlined in a November 2008 report several reasons why it believed Vilsack would be a poor choice for the position, particularly as energy and environmental reforms were a key point of the Obama campaign. Among those reasons the report cites: Vilsack has repeatedly demonstrated a preference for large industrial farms and genetically modified crops;as Iowa state governor, he originated the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, effectively blocking local communities from regulating where genetically engineered crops would be grown; additionally, Vilsack was the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership, and was named Governor of the Year by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, an industry lobbying group.Some of us have good memory.
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Post by James on May 21, 2015 23:28:37 GMT -5
I keep bees. They have a rough go of it. With diseases and mites and insecticides. A couple of times I have had nearly the whole gathering population killed by some fool spraying a field in bloom. You go out and there are many thousands of bees lying dead in front of the hives. Usually the colony survives, but you have lost your gatherers and will make no profit from them this year.
For sure, never spray insecticides on flowers.
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Post by James on May 21, 2015 23:39:12 GMT -5
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Post by OregonRed on May 22, 2015 11:38:17 GMT -5
I go about just this spring planting a 6' x 20' flower bed just for beneficials this year, that is intended to remain!
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