Required diesel additive for all new trucks

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

v10superduty wrote:
And it may be on the way out to be replaced by something else!
The scientist are starting to think the disappearing bee population " may"
be a result of DEF usage.
Only a theory for now but the timing kinda fits?

Yep "the disappearing bee population" doesn't have anything to do with the pesticides and weed killers we spray on our lawns and have been for the last 40 years right?

Reduced food for the bees and pesticides are to blame not DEF. But I'm sure if you looked at the funding for this so called
science you will find names like DuPont, Monsanto, Scott's and the like.

I grew up on a farm and the farmer (we didn't farm) behind us would have his field crops dusted. Killed the five honey bee hives that he had alongside his field. This happened three years in a row until he stopped having his fields dusted.

Don

Don,

What is kinda funny about your post, is how many folks I run into upon occasion wish DDT was still available as an insecticide! While not a farmer as you mention, more of an urban farmer horticulturist for the last 40 years, I have seen the damage by pesticides. DDT is one that I am personally glad is not around. We have bald eagles, herrons, and many other larger birds that were being killed via DDT, as they were eating insects sprayed with, not dead, smaller animals that ate the insects etc that had been sprayed with DDT. That went into system, mad their egg shells too thin, young did not live/survive in the egg stage.
I realize I am using the term funny about post, reality is, it is not funny ha ha! To more funny that you are saying the same basic thing I am saying.......
Then there was the client that was mad I would not put diazanon on his lawn because some crane flies were flying around having sex, laying eggs........contact insecticides do not work on the ground when adults are in the air! lost a client over that one!

Marty