I agree with sentiments offered.. Here is something refreshing regarding honey bees I recently chanced upon....... http://www.bestbees.com/
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:39 AM, John and Sue Gregoire <k...@empacc.net> wrote: > We'll join that observation and sentiment. Lynda, we were just commenting > on how > "safe" it is to walk barefoot -not at all a good thing. > > We've studied all this to death and it's past time for action. Does anyone > know > where the academic leadership is on this (these) issues? Continually > amazed that a > major U like CU and CLO aren't out in the forefront of this, FLAP and so > many other > needed efforts. > -- > John and Sue Gregoire > Field Ornithologists > Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory > 5373 Fitzgerald Road > Burdett,NY 14818-9626 > Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ > "Conserve and Create Habitat" > > On Sun, July 6, 2014 08:25, Stephanie Greenwood wrote: > > My garden which I've designed for bees & butterflies is also relatively > and sadly > > quiet. > > > > Stephanie Greenwood > > Sent from my iPad > > > > > >> On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Linda Orkin <wingmagi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for these observations Fritzie. I care. I'm there with you. It's > a tragedy. > >> And now we are on the cusp of another horrible pesticide related to > Agent Orange > >> being approved. Along with new agent orange ready GMO companion plants. > I, too, > >> have silently blooming white clover in my yard. I was thinking how just > 20 years > >> ago you could not walk barefoot at this time of year for fear of being > stung. Not > >> so now. > >> > >> If people don't wake up now the poisoning of this world, not our world > but all > >> beings world, will be entire and complete. And this is an appropriate > discussion > >> for a listserv made up of people who love birds, I would think. > >> > >> And gas should cost $100 per gallon. > >> > >> Linda > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>> On Jul 6, 2014, at 12:19 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard < > job121...@verizon.net> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) > between Rte. > >>> 34 B & Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field > Rd.. > >>> > >>> Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house & one on > the NYSEG > >>> Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 > June, Becky > >>> & I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the trailer park > down > >>> Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone to ask about > when, or > >>> if, they may have been active. > >>> > >>> In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in & > out of the > >>> tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have > noticed a > >>> remarkable lack of barn & tree swallows here this summer, compared to > previous > >>> years. > >>> > >>> Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" ... & eventually people got her > message & did > >>> something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of > weed-free corn & > >>> soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee so far, no > Monarch > >>> butterflies & few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is FULL of > white clover > >>> which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. > >>> > >>> We still have mosquitoes & black flies, insects that need water in > which to lay > >>> eggs & blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water & > blood. They > >>> thrive. We scratch. > >>> > >>> Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US > are fast > >>> disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of > >>> insecticides, weed killers & fungicides by home owners, golf course > owners, large > >>> & small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that > determines what > >>> food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the same ranks > as the > >>> carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. > >>> > >>> I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating > that > >>> scientists at MD U & the USDA have now found evidence that bees that > ate pollen > >>> contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected > with parasites > >>> that cause colony collapse disorder. > >>> > >>> I wonder ... 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