I'm really worried about bees and pesticides; there are so few bees in my garden in summer compared with numbers a few years ago, and I have several beekeeping friends who have lost whole colonies.
Meanwhile the government are BLOCKING EU moves to ban the neonicotinoid pesticides that several trials have shown are a likely culprit. The EU move was a temporary ban pending further trials, but our dear guvverment evidently believes in fairies, perhaps as alternative pollinators, because without bees up to one-third of crops will fail, though their friends at Monsanto will walk away with Big Bucks. Furious, in fact.
If you don't think I am BU to hand Cameron a paintbrush and tell him to get on with it, some petitions you can sign are
www.avaaz.org/en/hours_to_save_the_bees/
epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/47342 - this has SHAMINGLY few signatures...
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sieglinde · 05/04/2013 15:17
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