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Old 02-05-2013, 11:47 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Dutch study on insecticides

On 02/05/2013 10:57, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 02 May 2013 09:15:01 GMT, Baz wrote:

Sacha wrote in
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This is a very interesting study imo.
http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/...ks-insecticide
-invertebrate-die-off

This is scary, even by The Guardian standards!

"The pollution was so bad in some places that the ditch water in fields
could have been used as an effective pesticide"


Being a flat country, water in Dutch ditches doesn't flow.
The ditches around Dutch bulb fields used to be full of heavy metals.
They may still be.

But it should keep the Mosquitoes down