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Showing posts with label pesticides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pesticides. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

WEEDKILLERS AND BUTTERFLY POPULATIONS

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/01/BAUU1NR4OH.DTL

(In addition, mowing wildflowers in flower, instead of allowing them to mature. The mowers just went through today and cut all the blooming wildflowers off the county road and the smaller streets in my community. Not even the local Audubon Society could sway them. They will do the same when the butterfly migrations begin in late August. Bay County, FL)

Saturday, February 18, 2012

TELL THE EPA TO YANK THE PESTICIDE THAT'S KILLING BEES


http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/epa_bees/?r=5535152&id=35258-568005-z8oCkEx

There were virtually no bees in my yard last year. No wasps. No butterflies. No moths.

I don't use pesticides, but I have watched the diminishing numbers of insects, including bees every year.

Proof of this was my beautiful Confederate Rose. It's a shrubby tree that is now towering at the back of my yard. You can see its picture above. The flowers open in the morning, snow white.
By noon, they are pink. In the evening they are rose. When the cool weather came, it dropped its leaves.

There was ONE SEED POD ON THE TREE. One. Last year it was covered. It was a good year for flowers - it was covered with them. But none, except one was pollinated. The branches bend so I got a good look at what was going on inside the flowers. Nothing.

We are bombarded with chemtrails, as you've seen on this blog. Who knows really what the witch's brew in that stream is raining down on us, except that we know it's bad.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

THE LATEST ON BEDBUG INFESTATIONS FROM OUR FRIENDS AT NEWSMAX TODAY~

3. Environmentalists Blamed for Deadly Bedbug Plague

Government policies on the use of pesticides have led to a resurgent population of bedbugs — including some that carry a deadly antibiotic-resistant germ.

Bedbugs had been almost completely eradicated in the United States for half a century through the use of the now-banned pesticide DDT, but their population has grown rapidly during the past decade, overwhelming hotels, hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings, according to a report from the Heartland Institute.

Canadian researchers have recently discovered bedbugs carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to some antibiotics and can be deadly if it reaches the bloodstream.

H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, blames the bedbug resurgence on “poor policy decisions.”

He told Heartland Institute: “Most households have never seen a bedbug before now. But in the early 1970s, the government banned the pesticide DDT, and now we’re seeing bedbug infestations in European and North American cities.

“This is another legacy of Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring,’ the 1962 book credited with starting the environmental movement, leading to the ban of DDT.

“By banning DDT, we’ve killed people in developing countries through the spread of malaria. Now we’re subjecting the U.S. population to bedbugs and other pests and vermin.

“Government should lift the ban on DDT and other pesticides that are effective in treating pests like bedbugs.”

Angela Logomasini, director of risk and environmental policy with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, agrees.

“We had eradicated bedbugs in the past, then we banned DDT for home use, and now they’re back. I think this policy needs to be reevaluated.”

She also said, “We need a better regulatory environment. Rather than removing products from the shelves, which is where we are today because of the precautionary principle, more evaluation and experimentation is needed.”

And from Barbara at Farm Wars blog, comes this information:
There is another solution, and one in which the mainstream refuses to swim. Diatomaceous Earth will eradicate them just as effectively as a noxious chemical :)
Diatomaceous Earth uses:
Pest control
Diatomite is also used as an insecticide, due to its physico-sorptive properties. The fine powder absorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of insects' exoskeletons, causing them to dehydrate.[9] Arthropods die as a result of the water pressure deficiency, based on Fick's law of diffusion. This also works against gastropods and is commonly employed in gardening to defeat slugs. However, since slugs inhabit humid environments, efficacy is very low. It is sometimes mixed with an attractant or other additives to increase its effectiveness. Medical-grade diatomite is sometimes used to de-worm both animals and humans, with questionable efficacy.[10][11] It is most commonly used in lieu of boric acid, and can be used to help control and eventually eliminate cockroach and flea infestations. This material has wide application for insect control in grain storage.[12] It has also been used to control bedbug infestations, but this method may take weeks to work.[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
GMOs? We don't need no stinkin' GMOs!
Barbara H. Peterson
http://farmwars.info

Saturday, January 22, 2011

AND NOW, DEAR TRAVELERS, WE HAVE MUTANT BEDBUGS, RESISTANT TO PESTICIDES

http://www.naturalnews.com/031083_bed_bugs_pesticides.html

Careful where you shop, with what you buy, and where you lay your heads at night!

They can be anywhere...in theaters, on your airline seat, on the subway, in the stores where you shop, in antique and thrift shops. They can transfer to you at a party, in crowded places, from a carpet. They hide in cracks and crevices like in mattresses, box springs, dressers, furniture, under the switchplates in your rooms.

Creepy, crawly, prolific breeders. One that creeps into your purse at night can harbor an infestation and suck your blood at night. Blood specks on your sheets? On your clothing, on your skin?

Itchy bites in twos or threes? You have them.

I can't stand this.

No more from me today on this subject!


Thursday, February 5, 2009

5 foods you have to avoid because of pesticides...

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/dodging-pesticides-5-foods-to-avoid.html

Earlier, I read where many of these are MUST haves in your diet.

I'm getting dizzy - it's like being bipolar - you must/you must not put that food into your body.

I'm on a merry-go-round!

And don't eat anything with high fructose corn syrup (try to find something without it)!
Why? Because it's bad for you - fills your body with mercury. http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/highfructose.html