Silent hives. Over the last few
weeks, several new studies have come out linking neonicotinoids to bee decline.
The studies are appearing just as “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson’s seminal study
of the effect of pesticides on wildlife, is about to turn fifty. It’s hard to
avoid the sense that we have all been here before, and that lessons were
incompletely learned the first time around. New
Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/
"The world of
systemic insecticides is a weird world, surpassing the imaginings of the
brothers Grimm. It is a world where the enchanted forest of the fairy tales has
become a poisonous forest. It is a world where a flea bites a dog and dies…where
a bee may carry poisonous nectar back to its hive and presently produce
poisonous honey."--Rachel Carson
