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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found three adult dead birds on my Sunday walk. The cicadas are gone. What is going on? If this is due to residential  pesticide use I am terrified at what these chemicals are doing to our eco-system. [/quote]
Birds have no habitat, no food. Their numbers are so incredibly reduced from what they were even in my lifetime, even in the last ten years (to say nothing of what they were historically). People coating their yards in pesticides and herbicides, and that’s to say nothing of what goes on in our agricultural systems. So what might have been nothing more than a curious virus (fungus? Bacteria? I don’t know what’s killing the birds) in a limited population is going to have an outsized effect. There just aren’t big enough margins to ensure their safety.

And about the agricultural side: I come from small family farmers and am still friends with a few of them so I hate to speak ill of farmers, but this isn’t so much about the little guys as it is about Dow and Monsanto and their friends. Did you know that glyphosate actually accumulates in the soil, and that it continues to disrupt the whole life system in the soil? Did you know that some farmers are using Enlist Duo - glyphosate and Agent Orange. The defoliant that still wreaks havoc on the bodies of exposed Vietnamese and Vietnam Vets as well as the environment in Vietnam is used to treat fields, acres and acres and acres of them.

Go chemical free in your yard and plant natives. [/quote]

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