[ExI] bees again

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> From: William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> Date: 03/19/2016 5:29 PM (GMT-08:00)
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] bees again
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> ​Nobody is stopping other countries, that I know of (did not Google it)
> from using DDT or anything else that we have banned.  I have often wondered
> why they haven't.  And surely there are alternatives to coating seeds other
> than chemicals that kill bees.  ​
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> ​Cut the profits a bit, perhaps, and save the bees...
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> I haven't followed it but there should be plenty of evidence by now to
> answer whether or not DDT really does harm birds.  A charge made in
> Carson's Silent Spring was that bugs evolve around DDT.  Do they?  spike
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> ​I know this one fact:  in Louisiana the brown pelican, the state bird,
> nearly went into extinction because of DDT.
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​For an opinion, I think all bugs (meaning bacteria and viruses, eh?)
evolve around whatever it is that they encounter - and fast!  Maybe even
molds.  Biologists, where are you?  bill w​


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