AIBU?
AIBU to want Cameron to spend a week painting pollen into apple blossoms??
sieglinde · 05/04/2013 15:17
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...
Thanks.
quoteunquote · 05/04/2013 15:24
all ready done, it's complete madness to allow these pesticides to be used,
anyone wanting to hear how stupid the problem and debate is, please listen to conversation on today's you and yours
Unbelievable this is being blocked, food prices will rocket.
nancerama · 05/04/2013 15:42
I'm furious about this. I wrote to my MP begging him to do something The Tory twat responded with a photo of himself meeting and greeting a woman dressed as a bee and saying that it was important we should do something, but looking at the evidence we don't need to do anything.
What is their problem with the hard working bees?
weegiemum · 05/04/2013 15:46
Id like him to do this too.
Then spend 3 months cleaning toilets on the nmw. Oh and then a few months as a teacher in an inner city sink comprehensive, a few as a GP in a deprived part of the country, several as a child protection social worker.
In fact I suspect he doesn't have time to be a bus driver, refuse collector, secretary in the local job centre, and actually a hard working mp.
He's never had a real job.
LisaMed · 05/04/2013 15:49
The pesticides are bad and the recent bad weather will not help at all. Last year there will have been a shortage of blooms (even the sodding weeds didn't grow) and flowers are really late here.
Planning on planting some of these for the bees. Fingers crossed. I think the ones in our chimney have finally been seen off by the weather. I saw them at the beginning of March but no sign since.
sieglinde · 05/04/2013 17:12
Lovely to know I am not BU, and I love your suggestions too, weegiemum. But for now I am Bee Woman. Bees are just so crucial and these bloody fools are blundering about, wrecking an EU-wide plan to save them.
Anyone wanting to know more can go here www.soilassociation.org/wildlife/bees/vanishingofthebees
quoteunquote · 06/04/2013 15:31
We (local bee group) have been opening hives these last few week, (south hams escaped the bad weather this year)
out of 42 hives ,all well fed and care for, there are two with live bees in them. other groups are reporting similar failure numbers.
my cherry trees which should be buzzing with bees as they are in full blossom, normally my favourite place to sit and read at this time as the canopy sounds like a grand prix, with bumbles and honey bees fighting for space, is more or less empty.
please share these petitions with everyone you know, there are serious problems, that cannot be put off solving.
what types of things can we practically do MyDarlingClementine?moisturiser · 06/04/2013 20:15
I think people have absolutely no idea how serious this is, how much of our food on this planet is pollinated by bees. This is a priority.
I'm planting as much in my garden I can that will provide food for them; clover in my lawn, foxgloves, cornflowers, poppies, phacelia and nasturtiums. If anyone has the tiniest bit of garden (or a window box) please also consider planting some of the above, the more food we can provide for them the better.
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