" Dutch research reveals correlation between water polluted with 
imidacloprid and low numbers of aquatic insects"

So I was right when I wrote this:

SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON

First as a child, then with my kids
I'd take a jam jar on a string
To any stream among the meads
And cast the empty jam jar in.

Within two minutes, three at most,
The first few minnows would appear
And then a dozen, then a host,
And in the jam jar they would peer.

You waited 'til they'd gone inside
Then jerk the string to raise the jar
And bring it brimming to the side,
Then at the tiny fish you'd stare.

Retired now, with time to waste,
I thought I'd play that game again
And Walton's Minnow Tansy taste
But find my quest is all in vain!

I stalk the haunts of coot and herne.
I dabble, paddle, even swim!
But now I find, to my concern,
There is no stream with minnows in!

No kingfisher beneath the bridge;
They're just a mem'ry now, a dream;
Not much by way of fly or midge.
Pollution's poisoned ev'ry stream!

Chris

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