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Colony Collapse Disorder and pesticide

You aren't even supposed to use that stuff on corn to begin with....but they do use it on flowers......hmmm
 
Gill,
Nice catch. I had heard about this a while back, but didn't hear at that time which chemicals/insecticides were the cause.
Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide which means it goes into the entire system of the plant that is being treated. I have always been concerned about using it on plants that were being polinated, as I figured something like this would occur. But I really didn't realize it was used in farming! (I was under the belief as Exo mentioned.)
This stuff has a narrow application of safe use, and using it in farming is at the opposite end of the scale of "safe use"! WOW! :eek:

I myself have used this insecticide at times, usually with plants grown indoors. I have also used it a few times for certain insects like borers, which get into a plant & can't be killed off using regular "on contact" type of control. For those gardeners/nurserymen who can remember, or for those who have an old gardening book, the old way of controlling borers & such was arsenic! You'd pour it into the borer hole!
(If I remember right Imidacloprid was first found (in the retail market) in a product for roses. Roses of all things! Big yummy flowers to attract bees!) :ohno:

The "powers that be" are so ignorant when it comes to things like this. If you look into the plant/farming industry deeper, you will find that things are even worse :crazy: than you ever thought possible.
The entire state of things is a very sad situation for us all. :lac:
Here again as always, we create something with potential dangers, use it haphazardly or incorrectly, and then blame the thing created.
I don't know that there are many uses left for this product now, except for indoor plants perhaps. I do hope the industry takes this off the market, especially for farming, where most of its use is concentrated. (I didn't realize it was used in farming, as I saw its potential for great danger! Wow! How stupid can the industry be!) :scratch:

I hope people can learn to like the taste of Soilent Green! :puke:
We are well on our way to that end.
 
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