A word about pesticides.

10 years ago

I just wanted to share the plight of the Honeybee, Monarch Butterfly and other essential insects that are being decimated by both pesticide use and habitat destruction.
Studies have shown that a class of pesticides called Neonicotinoids is causing bee colonies to crumble.
Don't use them.
Without the honeybee to pollinate our food crops, we're screwed.
A small patch in your yard, farmland or roadside shoulder or median containing Milkweed and a few other wildflowers can make a difference to the flagging Monarch Butterfly and other vital pollinators.
Use pesticides sparingly, carefully and with great respect, if at all.I recommend against their usage, except for occasional use of insecticidal soaps. Bugs usually take care of bugs in most cases.
Herbicides are to be used in the most extreme circumstances, such as invasive control, but with all due respect.
I am reaching out to everyone on this forum to think about our future and try to heal some damage that has been done to our fragile ecosystem.
We all want to leave the Earth a better place for our children and grandchildren.

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Comments (4)

Kimmsr
10 years ago
The Neonicotinoids are one part of the problem. It is much more complex then simply not using on type of pesticide.
Plants growing in a good healthy soil will be stronger and healthier and better able to ward off an insect pest then plants grown in soils with the wrong soil pH and unbalanced nutrient levels. The concept of cleaning up any and all wild flowers (some call them "weeds") can also do harm since those wild flowers also provide a food source and living habitat for many beneficials.
If we continue at the pace we are on today we will destroy the world we live in.
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
10 years ago
I don't own any pesticides. Any plant that can't make it here will be replaced.
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IanW Zone 5 Ont. Can.
10 years ago
As I stated in another posting, I work in a nursery where we do not use any pesticides or fungicides for that matter and we are trying to persuade our customers to do the same....
just for the reasons that you stated.....

Ian
nessylord
10 years ago
I totally agree with you that the pesticides are killing the honeybees. In this case one must first carry out the Pest Inspections on various pesticides and should choose the organic ones that do not cause harm to the bees but only keeps them away.