[LomanBill]

[..and some of the very 'natural' and 'organic truths' he's pushing now might be just as misguided and harmful to the environment as the mistakes he was making in the past without realizing it.]

 

Back some 30+ years ago, I recall accompanying my Granddad while he was deploying nicotine bug-bombs in the family business' greenhouses.

 

Chlorinated neo-nicotinoids however, are relatively new, and unnatural.  The chlorination means the attached nicotine molecule don't break down in the target system (the nervous system of the insect);  making it a sort of super-nicotine...  which latches on to the nicotine receptor and, because it can't be broken down, stays latched.

 

The nicotine receptor then continues transmitting until depleted, and no longer able to do so. 

[sam_paine]

Chlorinated neo-nicotinoids however, are relatively new, and unnatural.

Hey, listen. I'm a huge fan of nuclear energy, but I don't think every tom, dick and freeper should have a fission reactor in the back yard!

By the same token, I don't necessarily assume that millions of people encouraging small gardens with weakened fruits and vegetables through predation and adaptive antigens due to focused fad gardening is superior to a focused, low-dose laser-beam pesticide which kills only the target pest.

If I have a 1000 acre farm that I'm 'innoculating' out in farm country that's one thing.

If I talk about dozens of 'natural gardens' interspersed in a heterogenous neighborhood of townhomes where beneficial bugs and birds and predators are attacted to neighboring flower gardens and 'organic' vegetable gardens and dog flea collars and city pollution and contagions and whatever else....then I'd suspect that happy little honeybees just might be more likely endangered trying to load up on nectar in a progressive organic neighborhood than due to a wheat farmer out in the country where the bees have no interest in going.

And I really don't believe that the wheat basket will collapse if bees stay out of kansas.