“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”

Just beautiful: Organic Pesticides Still Kill Bees

9 Replies to ““Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit””

Too bad for the Back to Nature freakos but old maw nature dont play favors like the tree huggers/granola munchers thenk she done

What part of the word Pest-i-Cide do they not understand?
Pesticides kill insects, period stop. If organic pesticides do not kill insects, then they are not pesticides, just another organic scam.

The adverse affects were dramatic on the next generation of bees. Maybe it is good that granola munchers don’t have kids.

The publisher of this article needs to run away…far away!!!

Of all the things to worry about, the worry over the health of insects is likely the most pointless.
Life on earth could be terminated tomorrow and within a short period of time all of our insects would be back and probably thriving quite nicely if there was anything to eat.

Here’s an all-natural pesticide for you, Strychnine, derived from a genus of trees and climbing shrubs of the gentian order.
From Wikipedia:
“The seeds and bark of many plants in this genus contain the powerful poison strychnine… seeds are the chief commercial source of strychnine and were first imported to and marketed in Europe [from India] as a poison to kill rodents and small predators.”
Who knew that “natural” poisons can kill as well as as the artificial stuff?

rd is right. Pesticides, or insecticides if you want to be more specific, are intended to kill insects. Bees are insects. Now maybe some of those “nasty” chemical pesticides are so carefully tailored that they can kill only certain harmful species, and leave benign species like honeybees untouched. But natural-sourced insecticides probably tend to be more broad-spectrum, because they come from plants that evolved such chemicals as a strategy to avoid being eaten by insects.
And curiously, one of the most commonly-used natural-source insecticides, pyrethrin, is not mentioned at all in that article. And I know it kills bees dead, because I used some to kill a swarm of bees that set up a colony in my porch. And yes, I contacted local beekeepers, and asked them to come get the colony, but was turned down for reason of the fear of inadvertently importing disease to their hives.