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Yes, they should ban this pesticide! I love bees from a distance and see how they are needed on this earth.
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02-09-2016, 02:57 PM
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Without bees life as we know it will change.
I think everyone admits how bad this pesticide is. Some places have banned it, but we need a global ban. Anything less is risky.
We won't like the world we end up with if we kill off all the pollinators.
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02-11-2016, 02:30 PM
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There are places where bans are in place and people are working hard to protect bees.
Oddly a big city like Toronto is bee friendly. We banned pesticides, people are planting bee/butterfly gardens and there are hives being looked after on the rooves of a number of high-rises. There are a number of bee rescue groups and beekeeper cooperatives. There are even stores selling natural bee products like hand made soaps using honey and of course special honeys.
I have a number of kinds of wild bees in my garden and I want to built them a nesting area in the spring.
Bees are in trouble, but a lot of people want to help them.
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That's great that people want to help the bees. I am afraid of them but know they need protecting. I have heard of some bees as killer bees. Have you heard of them? I saw a story on tv where swarms of them stung a man and he died. I don't think they are native to the U.S. or Canada.
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Yes, I see how the bees are needed for pollination. I just mentioned that about killer bees because it scared me so bad to see that on the tv.
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I think a lot of the TV stuff sensationalized the killer bees. They were supposed to be a terrible emergency and it sounded like we were all in danger. Now you never hear about them.
The real emergency is the decline in bee populations. It will be funny if the killer bees are the ones that survive. We will be dependent on the bees that we thought were a danger.
Actually we will be happy to have any pollinators we can get.
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I hope they will stop using bee killing pesticides. In this day and age they should know better!