[NatureNS] comment re Empty Forests

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pollen collected by bees. =A0Yo --Apple-Mail-EE9264F5-BB69-410D-BDCB-F3C4F9DE9002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Was your bean seed pretreated? If so the seed treatment may have been a syst= emic pesticide which persists into the plant tissue, nectar and pollen. Mary Macaulay, P.Eng. Executive Director Atlantic Concrete Association www.atlanticconcrete.ca Office: 902-443-4456 Cell: 902-489-2000 Fax: 902-404-8074 On 2013-08-15, at 11:02 PM, "Dave&Jane Schlosberg" <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.= ca> wrote: > Here in my downtown Dartmouth pole bean patch there is at most only one bu= mble bee working at any one time. Whereas, in the past, many bees and wasps w= ould have been present. The pole bean pollination is the worst I can remembe= r in almost 30 years of gardening. Maybe only one in five bean flowers have b= een pollinated so far. > =20 > Yet my blueberry crop (earlier in the season) was reasonably well pollinat= ed. > =20 > Yours > Dave Schlosberg > =20 > From: James W. Wolford > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 5:06 PM > To: NatureNS > Subject: [NatureNS] comment re Empty Forests > =20 > Here is a relevant note I wrote myself on Aug. 7: > =20 > AUG. 7, 2013 - I walked along the Wolfville Rail Trail this afternoon, as I= often do, and noted just a few butterflies (mostly whites) flitting among t= he huge array of plants in flower, especially Queen Anne's lace, common tans= y, knapweed, etc., from Wolfville Harbour but especially from Elm Street out= to the Acadia Arena. BUT what really struck me was how very few other inse= cts I am noticing on the flowers as I walk. Thinking back a couple of deca= des (or more?), I used to see a wide variety of insects and spiders on the f= lowers, and now I am seeing few to none, plus the few butterflies. Has anyo= ne noticed the same thing? And does anyone know of a database somewhere out= there in our world of information that has decades of data like we have for= breeding birds? > =20 --Apple-Mail-EE9264F5-BB69-410D-BDCB-F3C4F9DE9002 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Was your bean seed pretreated? If so the seed treatment may have been a systemic pesticide which persists into the plant tissue, nectar and pollen.<br><br>Mary Macaulay, P.Eng.<div>Executive Director</div><div>Atlantic Concrete Association</div><div>www.atlanticconcrete.ca

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On 2013-08-15, at 11:02 PM, "Dave&Jane Schlosberg" <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000"> <div>Here in my downtown Dartmouth pole bean patch there is at most only one bumble bee working at any one time. Whereas, in the past, many bees and wasps would have been present. The pole bean pollination is the worst I can remember in almost 30 years of gardening. Maybe only one in five bean flowers have been pollinated so far.</div> <div> </div> <div>Yet my blueberry crop (earlier in the season) was reasonably well pollinated.</div> <div> </div> <div>Yours</div> <div>Dave Schlosberg</div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"> <div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"> <div> </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> James W. Wolford </div> <div><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 12, 2013 5:06 PM</div> <div><b>To:</b> NatureNS </div> <div><b>Subject:</b> [NatureNS] comment re Empty Forests</div></div></div> <div> </div></div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline">Here is a relevant note I wrote myself on Aug. 7: <div> </div> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 12px helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica"><b>AUG. 7, 2013 </b></font><font style="COLOR: #001ee6; FONT: 12px helvetica" color="#001ee6" size="3" face="Helvetica">- I walked along the </font><font style="FONT: 12px helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica"><b>Wolfville Rail Trail</b></font><font style="COLOR: #001ee6; FONT: 12px helvetica" color="#001ee6" size="3" face="Helvetica"> this afternoon, as I often do, and noted just </font><font style="FONT: 12px helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica"><b>a few butterflies (mostly whites) </b></font><font style="COLOR: #001ee6; FONT: 12px helvetica" color="#001ee6" size="3" face="Helvetica">flitting among the </font><font style="FONT: 12px helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica"><b>huge array of plants in flower</b>, especially<b> </b>Queen Anne's lace, common tansy, knapweed, etc., </font><font style="COLOR: #001ee6; FONT: 12px helvetica" color="#001ee6" size="3" face="Helvetica">from Wolfville Harbour but especially from Elm Street out to the Acadia Arena.  BUT what really struck me was </font><font style="FONT: 12px helvetica" size="3" face="Helvetica"><b>how very few other insects I am noticing  on the flowers</b></font><font style="COLOR: #001ee6; FONT: 12px helvetica" color="#001ee6" size="3" face="Helvetica"> as I walk.  Thinking back a couple of decades (or more?), I used to see a wide variety of insects and spiders on the flowers, and now I am seeing few to none, plus the few butterflies.  Has anyone noticed the same thing?  And does anyone know of a database somewhere out there in our world of information that has decades of data like we have for breeding birds?</font></div> <div> <div> </div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></blockquote></body></html> --Apple-Mail-EE9264F5-BB69-410D-BDCB-F3C4F9DE9002--