Bye Bye Birdies and the Bees

[Amazon 7]

So now there is evidence that we are witnessing a second "Silent Spring".

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140709-birds-insects-pesticides-insecticides-neonicotinoids-silent-spring/

But part of the goal of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment report is to show that bees aren't the only animals affected. The task force presents evidence that earthworms, aquatic invertebrates, lizards, fish, and many other animals are suffering ill effects as a result (either direct or indirect) of systemic pesticides.

[PLFXpert 0]

Thank you for sharing. This is a big deal I wish more people were aware of/cared about.

In related news: For those looking to get their toes wet, there is an excellent documentary film called Vanishing of the Bees that I highly recommend.

If I remember correctly, another good documentary film, Food, Inc., also touches on bee colony-collapse disorder as a result of pesticides and other factory-farm practices.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[Croc 0]

Lightning bugs, too.

"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

[JohnMitchell 14]

And the plants then generate neonicotinoids throughout their structure. I'm assuming that includes the parts we eat. . .

[FlyingRhenquest 1]

Well if we're killing all the birds and bees anyway, can we have our DDT back? I'm tired of having to worry about bedbugs every time I stay in a hotel.

I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

[Amazon 7]

JohnMitchell

And the plants then generate neonicotinoids throughout their structure. I'm assuming that includes the parts we eat. . .

Yup.... The bees and the birds.. are just the canaries in the mine... if it is killing them.. how much damage is that crap doing to other species up the food chain... The fact that much of our food needs bees and other pollinators... at some point there will be nothing left to pollinate all the fruits and food crops. If the birds die off that keep insect populations in check... what will be the effect of that???

I have said before. the evidence is all around us, we are living in the middle of the 6th major extinction event this planet has experienced. We are the ones who are causing this one.