UK approve "emergency" use of neonicotinoids on monocultural sugar beet crops.
Emergency caused by who? Aphids? Sugar beet for what? Beef?
Neonicotinoid has six syllables, it must come from tobacco somehow.
Tobacco has millions of seeds and sticky leaves insects die on.
What sort of emergency does it take to start killing bees?
Bees are a very peaceful listen in early morning sun.
Keep a patch of salvias near your washing line
so you can listen to their hum while pegging clothes.
And study interesting wasps, they are always appearing.
It's baby pumpkin time. Will bees find their blooms? I hope the rats don't.
I hope they grow big enough to eat (not the rats, the pumpkins).
Bees or no, pollinating pumpkins is fun. Break off a stamen
from a male flower and then rub it on the female one.