On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:21:46 -0700, Paul Cherubini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Brian, is the assumption that pollinators are in serious
>or substantial decline due to industrialized farming
>practices real or imagined?
like what habitat and food sources would pollinators find in a sea of corn and soybean where the
roadside ditches are sprayed with herbicide so the farmers can bale it? hey its called a bee
wasteland.
National Academy of Sciences Report titled
Status of Pollinators in North America (2006)
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309102898
please read this and tell me i'm blowing smoke...
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