"Janet Conroy" wrote in message
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terryc;826187 Wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:19:01 +0000, Jonno wrote:
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Hmm Yes, but WHEN do you dust.
I've done everything to attract bees, and get caught out with this
stuff....
There must be a better way.-

After the tomatoes have finished flowering as the bees will not be
visiting the tomato plants.

I don't know whether this has spread to the antipodes, but the US, UK
and other parts of western Europe are suffering from "colony collapse
disorder' where huge numbers of honey bees are dying - partly due to
some mite that infests the hives. Without bees the world's food
sources would dry up in a few years. It is SO important to do nothing
that kills bees and everything we gardeners can to provide them with
lots of food sources, especially nectar-rich plants,to keep them going.




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Janet Conroy
Re bees and colonies collapsing...
I would bet that this is due to some chemical too.
Recently frog populations were found to be dying "due to some herbicide"
which leached into the water supplies, and its effectively killing tadpoles
at rates of less the one part per trillion.. I don't know how they measured
that, buts its clearly a small amount...
De Santo with their roundup insecticide genetically modified wheat crops?
Who knows, but I bet they don't do their homework till they have too, and
probably too late....Corporations. They can live forever, and don't apply
human laws as we know them. Only the laws concerning making money...