As Peter suspects, birds go before insects, and Randy observes, insects are going in places without pesticides, which leads me to the question....if birds are disappearing because insects are fewer, what has been reduced in the environment to reduce insects. If not pesticides...what?
Kim Flottum
Editor, Bee Culture Magazine
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