tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post2273900231701590471..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Silent spring revisited: New worries and the human futureKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-12652530541151756982018-04-02T11:18:51.687-04:002018-04-02T11:18:51.687-04:00I live in upstate New York, until last spring on a...I live in upstate New York, until last spring on a hilltop farm, now in the nearby small village. Two summers ago, I noticed that up on the farm there were almost no bugs, no flies, no moths, no dragonflies, few fireflies, virtually no butterflies. I remember playing in a meadow in the Catskill Mountains in my childhood in the 1940s, where clouds of butterflies rose from the wild flowers like so many winged blossoms, an intoxicating abundance so great that we thought nothing of picking them off the flowers and pinning them to cardboard so that we could "collect" them. Most of those species now are gone. Even in the 1970s Monarch butterflies were everywhere in August and September. Now we rejoice to see two or three a summer.g-minorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538584920169603580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-22403472061323962042018-04-01T19:01:16.228-04:002018-04-01T19:01:16.228-04:00Nature corrects its mistakes. Monsanto/Bayer does ...Nature corrects its mistakes. Monsanto/Bayer does not, to the dismay of all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com