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Sunlei

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18. I have a lot of flowers around my house and meadows..last few years have seen NO hummingbirds,

Reply to peoli (Original post)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 10:56 AM

Feb 2014

very few bees,butterflys. /Sad, looks like all these huge 'farms' use systemics to kill 'problem pests'. Homeowners too use those systemic plant spikes to kill off plant pests.

That stuff is so freaking toxic to many species, including humans.

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EPA Approves Another Pesticide Highly Toxic to Bees [View all] peoli Feb 2014 OP

Does the EPA hate bees or ***real*** food? nt valerief Feb 2014 #1

Or people, because without the bees there won't be much food to go around. Squinch Feb 2014 #20

The EPA should be renamed the Corporate Protection Administration LiberalEsto Feb 2014 #2

no kidding. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2014 #4

K&R. (n/t) Nihil Feb 2014 #31

+1 Ponietz Jul 2019 #35

EPA = A tool of amerikan chemical corporations warrant46 Feb 2014 #3

It has been so from the start: dougolat Feb 2014 #19

I'm familiar with that warrant46 Feb 2014 #21

Fk Fk Fk!!!!!!!!!!! catchnrelease Feb 2014 #5

Sociopaths masquerading as corporations Auggie Feb 2014 #6

People need to get up in arms about this shit! loudsue Feb 2014 #7

Just wait, when all the bees are gone, monsanto will create their own... Javaman Feb 2014 #8

with drone & NSA spying capabilities no doubt. Kip Humphrey Feb 2014 #9

of course. they will have cameras to document whose not using their GMO's Javaman Feb 2014 #10

And just how many rats, mice and dogs had to die for them... Scalded Nun Feb 2014 #11

Any dispassionate observer sulphurdunn Feb 2014 #12

I believe there is an agenda to wreck the environment. And the DEMS just sit back and coast... blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #13

Starting with the President down - let's 840high Feb 2014 #16

We need to get vocal about this. 840high Feb 2014 #14

Something has to be done. We all know this is the wrong way to treat life on our planet. n/t Judi Lynn Feb 2014 #15

Bees are not job creators jsr Feb 2014 #17

I have a lot of flowers around my house and meadows..last few years have seen NO hummingbirds, Sunlei Feb 2014 #18

+1 warrant46 Feb 2014 #22

Don't want folks to call the parties the same? This kind of thing helps fuel the sentiment TheKentuckian Feb 2014 #23

anything to make a buck frwrfpos Feb 2014 #24

Kicking this Important Post LeftOfWest Feb 2014 #25

thank you n/t peoli Feb 2014 #26

The EPA is run by idiots arikara Feb 2014 #27

The fish stinks from the head. DeSwiss Feb 2014 #28

REALLY?????? Useless in FL Feb 2014 #29

Has an FOIA request been done for the internal working documents about this decision at USEPA? greatlaurel Feb 2014 #30

Not at all surprising swilton Feb 2014 #32

Just as a PSA, I'm cross-posting this amazing Bee thread here... countryjake Feb 2014 #33

Not long before a jar of honey costs more than a barrel of oil Ponietz Jul 2019 #34