Bumblebees remembered: 

Dozens gathered at the edge of the Target store parking lot in Wilsonville on Sunday to memorialize an estimated 50,000 bees who died there from pesticide poisoning earlier this month. Black netting covered more than 50 flowering European linden trees that had been sprayed with the pesticide Safari, which was intended to control aphids but is now blamed for killing the bees. 

After a moment of silence, attendees took to the microphone to urge action, read poems, chant and sing songs. Nearly all argued that the incident illustrates the much larger issue of declining bee populations worldwide. "In some parts of the world, bee populations have been so devastated that people have to pollinate crops chemically," said Rozzell Medina, a Portland resident who organized the event. "That's not sustainable. That's not healthy."

[ Question: Pollinate crops chemically?? ]

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