Bees

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?UNYDO 23 June 2012. Bees on Papaver somniferum flowers
Bees swarm the Papaver somniferum flowers. I had and have more bees his year than the last six years combined.The grass in the backyard has not been cut for about a month and the white clover flowers are not cut off. The yard is white with these clover flowers. This is also an attraction for the bees.I seeded the clover about six year ago in the grass.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TPMNS 16 June 2012 Poppy and Bees
A picture of a pretty poppy growing almost alone. The other Shirley poppies are saturated with bees. Next year the poppies will be planted on the periphery of the vegetable garden and along some rows to attract bees. The poppy plant is basically not intrusive and should grow well amongst vegetables, particularly tomatoes.

[The Riff-Raff Element]

We've got more bees here too. I've counted eight distinct species of wild bee too, in numbers I've not seen for a while. The General Council of the Vendée unilaterally banned (it's a voluntary ban - they have no actual power to enforce it) nicotinamide insecticides a few years back, to howls of derision from the agrochems that there was no proof of a link between their use and the decline in bee numbers. Ever since then numbers have increased, even with the arrival in the area of the Asian hornet.

[Durgan]

Most interesting. All herbicides have been banned here, and pesticides are severely limited for household use. 2-4 D is completely banned,(except for golf courses). But we have Round Up, the farmers right hand. Some of the stuff is so toxic that it has to be produced in India(Bhopal).

[citizentwiglet]

How can a substance be 'completely banned' except for use on golf courses? If it's still being used on golf-courses, then it is not completely banned, is it?

[Durgan]

How can a substance be 'completely banned' except for use on golf courses? If it's still being used on golf-courses, then it is not completely banned, is it?

Maybe too much Grammar School. I can just hear the teacher being what he/she considered being precise, instead of just being a jackass.

[citizentwiglet]

So, does 4 +4 = 9 equal inaccurate and wrong, or 'not quite precise enough'?

'Smallpox has been completely eradicated in the World, except for Somalia'.

It's not imprecise, Durgan. It's incorrect. Yet you refer to members on another thread speaking in 'half-truths'!