Red and Rover by Brian Basset for July 05, 2018

Very wise of you, Red. We must try harder to do right for the bees!

Sad but true, Red.

Big dose of reality today.

A huge does of reality.If I had agarden it would be filled with plant that would attract insects.We need the biodiversity.

This makes me sad, but people won’t do right. The flowers the bees need to pollinate we call them weeds and kill them because we have to have “lush green lawns”!

Oh, no! Do you think we’ll ever learn? Love and Hugs for Red and Rover

Maybe a copy of this should be sent to EPA director and nemesis Scott Pruitt

“A weed is just a wildflower that got lost”. I wrote that almost 20 years ago while fighting pesticide use. I now own 55 acres of wildflowers, milkweed and pollinater friendly plants. We are chemical free as we are right on the bird migration path. Our local honey house keeps his bees nearby so they feed and collect pollen from our meadows. We love and protect our bees! :)

Oh For the love of DDT!

As Joni Mitchell sang: please mr. farmer put away your DDT now. Give me spots on my apples but give me the birds and the bees, please.

https://youtu.be/9S4O56Remb4

“A weed is an herb we haven’t found the use for yet.”

You go, Red! A serious environmental moment. Thanks Brian!

The bees seem to be hypnotized by the movement of the water in our pool. They fly in to drink, I suppose. I save at least one a day so I hope I’m doing my part. I tell my kids and grandkids to never kill them. They seem to comply. Wasps are another story. They must die!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scott-pruitt-just-resigned-head-194600943.html

While I appreciate the sentiment behind this particular comic, it’s anachronistic because the pesticide-type that’s killing bees — neonicotinoids — didn’t come into widespread use until the late 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid