This article contains a map of the use of one of the neonicotinoids. It wou=
ld be interesting to see if there is a correlation with the present lack of=
singing insects.
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/neonicotinoids-midwest/
Wil Hershberger
Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
Hedgesville, WV
The Songs of Insects
My Blog
On Aug 9, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Bernie Krause [naturere=
cordists] <> wrote:
> We live in Sonoma wine country, a rural area that=92s primarily dedicated=
to organic farming practices, David. So my hunch these changes (here) are =
something more climate-related=85at least for the moment.
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> Bernie
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> On Aug 9, 2014, at 2:22 PM, [naturerecordists] <natur=
> wrote:
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>>> Same here in Michigan ( lower peninsula). Nearly dead silent both nigh=
t and day. Not even field crickets....and even visually few insects. I =
can walk green fields an barely kick up a grasshopper...light at night have=
very few Insects around them. frightening.
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>> Going back to my original post on this thread, I quoted the environmenta=
list
>> George Monbiot in my newspaper who was discussing the recent widespread =
use
>> of nicotinoid pesticides which were also reducing some populations of be=
nign
>> insects, including the use of the pesticides in the original seed which =
then
>> stayed in the plant.
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>> There have been reports from both Europe and America that bees may have =
been
>> badly affected by these persistent pesticides. In particular oilseed rap=
e
>> may be killing young bees early in the season when they feed on the yell=
ow
>> flowers. Nicotinoids do not discriminate between good and bad insect
>> species. Insectiverous birds are losing their food supply in the nesting=
>> season.
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>> It would be interesting to see if the insect population reductions corre=
late
>> with the use of these pesticides. Possibly whole areas, or certain crops=
>> were not using nicotinoids and so escape the problem.
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>> David Brinicombe
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>> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
>> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause=
.
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