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This presentation will include an update of current research as presented in the League of Women Voters Minnesota's (LWVMN) latest Briefing Paper: "The Impact of Neonicotinoids on Honey Bees” and some information about a local, grass roots 100% volunteer, not for profit bee/pollinator advocacy group, Humming for Bees. You’ll learn about the essential role bees and other pollinators play in our food production and about the chemicals that are affecting their survival.
A
Hello,
everybody
I
think
we'll
get
started
now.
My
name
is
Mary
rice,
I'm
president
of
the
bloomington
legal
women
voters
that
want
to
thank
everybody
for
coming
tonight.
I
also
want
to
thank
the
sustainability
coalition.
The
state
sustainability
coalition
is
called
sponsoring
this
event
with
us
tonight.
In
addition,
I
want
to
thank
the
city
of
Bloomington
for
offering
this
space
to
us.
The
city
of
Bloomington
is
so
good
about
partnering
with
us
and
offering
space
when
we
need
it,
and
so
thank
you
to
the
city.
A
The
primary
purpose
of
the
legal
wound
voters
is
to
grow
the
vote,
protect
the
vote
and
empower
the
vote.
Part
of
empowering
the
vote
is
education,
and
that's
why
we're
here
tonight
the
League
of
Women,
Voters
Minnesota,
has
two
priorities
this
year.
The
first
priority
is
about
voting
and
voter
registration,
which
is
crit
called
considering
the
election
year
that
this
is
the
second
priority
revolves
around
the
environment.
So
this
is
a
fitting
program
for
us
to
do
tonight.
A
It's
consistent
with
that
and
it's
just
about
Earth
Day,
so
the
timings
rate,
bees
and
other
pollinators
are
responsible
for
reproduction
of
ninety
percent
of
all
flowering
plants
and
bees
are
in
trouble.
So
this
is
a
significant
issue.
That's
critical
for
us
to
take
a
look
at
that.
Most
of
us
don't
know
much
about
I,
certainly
don't
and
so
I'm,
really
looking
forward
to
hearing
what
Patricia
Howser
has
to
say.
Patricia
Howser
is
with
the
League
of
Women
Voters
South
tanka
and
is
a
co-founder
of
humming
for
bees,
along
with
Jeff
Dunsmore
who's.
A
B
C
B
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
what
you
can
do.
Let
me
tell
a
little
bit
about
why
bees
are
important.
No
pardon
me
about
humming
for
bees.
That's
where
I'm
starting
I
mean
for
bees
is
a
grassroots
100%
volunteer.
In
fact,
I
see
one
of
our
volunteers
here
in
the
audience
Tom
organization
we're
not
for
profit,
which
means
we
do
pay
taxes
on
any
signs
that
we
sell
any
be
safe
yard
signs
and,
however,
we're
not
a
501c3,
so
you
don't
get
the
benefit
of
being
able
to
write
it
off.
B
Let
me
tell
you
about
the
science:
first,
we
had
a
double
campaign,
a
be
safe
yard
campaign
and
then
the
other
part
of
what
we
wanted
to
do
was
to
get
one
city
to
pass
a
be
safe
city
resolution,
the
be
safe
yard.
The
little
yellow
sign
that
you
see
is
actually
an
idea
of
mark.
We
got
from
dr.
Marla
Spivak
from
the
U
of
M
B
lab.
B
She
said,
put
a
sign
in
yard,
get
the
conversation
going
and
I
think
she
also
must
have
spoken
with
the
Department
of
egg,
because
they
in
their
best
practices
sheet.
That's
over
there
there's
a
desk
copy
over
there.
They
talked
about
putting
a
sign
in
your
yard
just
to
get
the
conversation
going.
People
still
don't
know
what's
happening
here
and
that
there's
an
issue
now.
B
B
Yr
b
is
important.
These
and
all
pollinators
are
important
because
they're
part
of
the
balance
of
nature,
they
pollinate
plants
that
produce
food
for
humans
and
other
animals
along
with
other
pollinators.
These
give
us
a
third
of
the
food
we
eat.
We
can
thank
them
for
over
90
different
crops
grown
in
the
United
States
alone.
Their
pollination
services
are
free
and
they
provide
any
where,
from
I've
heard,
18
to
24
billion
dollars
of
income
for
people
in
the
United
States.
B
Some
facts
about
bees
that
you
might
not
know
not
all
bees
are
black
and
yellow,
not
all
bees
sting,
not
all
bees
make
honey.
There
are
about
20,000
species
of
bees
worldwide
and
honeybees
are
only
one
of
those
species.
There
are
about
400
different
species
of
native
bees
in
Minnesota.
As
you
can
see
on
this
picture,
the
only
honeybee
is
with
the
gentleman
in
the
white
bee
suit,
and
the
reason
there's
been
so
much
to
be
said
about
honeybees
is
because
they're
called
managed
bees
there.
B
They
come
back
to
that
hive
for
that
beekeeper
and
when
they
come
back
to
the
hive,
the
beekeeper
can
take
out
a
frame
and
look
and
see
how
things
are
going.
We
can't
do
that
with
the
wild
bees.
There's
a
wonderful
book
by
Heather
home
from
Minnetonka
right
here
in
Minnesota
I'm,
going
to
just
put
this
down.
Maybe
you
can
see
it
on
there.
B
Can
you
see
that
on
there
okay,
then
I'm
going
to
hold
it
up?
Oh
I'm,
sorry,
there
it
is
pollinators
of
native
plants,
it's
an
excellent
book
with
lots
of
pictures
that
heather
has
taking
herself
and
talking
about
all
of
our
wonderful
native
bees
here,
not
all
of
them,
but
most
of
them
here
in
Minnesota.
Here's
the
be
briefing
paper
that
was
completed
last
November
and
then
published
in
December.
B
This
is
the
league
of
women
voters
under
the
state
league,
with
a
group
of
had
a
group
of
people
from
around
the
state
work
together
on
developing
this
book.
It's
called
the
impact
of
neonicotinoids
on
honey
bees
at
the
top.
You
can
get
it
on
the
State
League
of
Women
Voters
Minnesota
website.
That's
what
the
LW
v
MN
stands
for
and
if
you
go
to
LW
v
MN
be
zorg.
B
You
can
find
this
paper
plus
some
of
the
slides
that
I'll
be
showing
you
tonight
you're
welcome
to
use
it
to
other
presentations
that
you
might
be
giving
or
just
to
get.
The
information
here,
you'll
be
hearing
a
lot
from
this
now
I
want
to
go
over.
This
word
took
me
about
three
weeks
to
learn
how
to
say
it
and
I.
Finally,
as
a
former
first
grade
teacher,
I
used,
I
decided
I
can
read
this.
I
can
break
it
down.
B
B
Now
an
interesting
thing
about
neonicotinoid
is
that
these
are
the
names
of
them.
If
you
look
on
a
bottle
of
pesticide
pardon
me
under
pestis
a
package
containing
pesticides
or
a
bottle
that
has
of
pesticides,
it
might
say,
imidacloprid,
clothianidin
acetamiprid
denote
a
firm,
thiamethoxam
fight,
corporate
night
and
hiram
any
one
of
those
and
it
won't
be
say
neonicotinoids,
but
these
are
in
the
neonate
annoyed
family.
Neo
nikka
tonight
is
a
class
of
insecticides
and
these
are
their
members.
B
It's
like
family
members,
like
you,
have
Jim
Tom
Joan
in
your
family,
but
these
are
their
names.
You
don't
have
to
know
how
to
say
them,
but
you
just
you,
you
will
want
to
recognize
them
and
over
on
the
table
is
little
yellow
sheet
with
these
names
listed.
So
you
know,
if
you
see
this
on
a
bottle,
that's
not
something
you
want
to
buy
or
use.
All
of
them
are
neo
Nick's.
B
Let's
talk
here
about
the
worldwide
honeybee
colony
loss.
There
are
many
interrelated
factors.
It's
not
just
one
thing:
that's
causing
the
problems
that
bees
are
having
there's
habitat
loss.
So
we
look
around
in
the
suburbs
here
and
we
see
lots
of
grass.
We
see
lots
of
cement
lots
of
paved
roads.
We
don't
necessarily
see
lots
of
flowers,
they
don't
have
places
to
live
in
and
there's
not
much
to
eat
pesticides,
that's
one
of
the
key
factors
and
that's
when
we
can
do
something
about
I'll
get
back
to
that
pathogens.
Just
like
us.
B
Bees
get
sick,
there
are
viruses
out
there,
so
they
have
pathogens
to
deal
with
parasites.
They
have
one
called
the
varroa
destructor
aptly
named
and
also
there's.
Another
might
I
forgot
its
name,
but
there
are
parasites
that
cause
problems
and
cause
be
death.
There's
also
poor
nutrition.
Remember
I
mentioned
they
don't
have
places
to
live
and
there's
not
many
flowers,
flowers
are
be
food
and
beers,
don't
distinguish
and
say
this
one's
a
weed
I'm
not
going
to
eat
it.
This
one's
a
pretty
flower
I'll
eat
from
this
one.
They
go.
They
use
flour.
B
What
we
call
weeds
from
dandelions.
They
find
protein
from
creeping
charlie.
They
find
carbohydrates
in
their
nectar
and
lot
lots
of
both
from
clover
and
then
there's
climate
change.
There
are
some
plants
that
are
co-evolved
native
plants
that
are
co-evolved
at
the
to
bloom
at
just
the
time
that
a
particular
native
bee
is
emerging
and
climate
change
has
interrupted.
That
evidence
suggests
that
the
use
of
neonicotinoids
is
a
driving
factor
in
be
declined,
strong
evidence
and
we'll
be
talking
about
that
tonight.
Let's
take
a
look
at
the
bar
graph.
B
Now,
if
you
look
at
the
gray
bar
at
the
bottom,
it
says
15%
there
in
two
thousand
six
and
two
thousand
seven
from
from
that
time.
Up
to
that
time
and
beyond
at
for
winter
lost,
beekeepers
were
saying
they
could
survive
and
there
you
know
rii
queen
and
do
things
if
they
had
fifteen
percent
loss.
That
was
considered
an
average
loss.
That
was
okay.
But
if
you
look
at
2006
the
yellow
bar
that
was
winter
loss
for
that
year,
it
was
way
it
was
more
than
double
the
average
loss.
B
2010-2011
there's
an
orange
bar
scientists
and
beekeepers
began
to
notice
that
something
else
was
happening.
The
orange
bar
shows
that
bees
were
dying
in
record
number,
even
after
winter
in
spring
and
summer
and
other
seasons
worth
normally
that
had
not
occurred,
and
if
you
looked
at
the
end
of
the
graph
in
2014
and
2015,
it's
up
to
like
between
42
and
45
and
those
are
u.s.
hives.
B
That's
the
average
for
the
loss
bee
colony,
hives
loss
in
the
United
States
and
remember
a
colony,
consists
of
about
thirty
to
forty
to
fifty
thousand
bees
and
we're
talking
about
colonies
lost
in
Minnesota,
the
farmers
of
Minnesota
apartme,
the
beekeepers
of
Minnesota
lost
over
50
1%,
or
maybe
it
was
51%,
but
it
was
over
fifty
percent
that
year
who,
if
this
happened
on
a
cattle
ranch,
I
mean
when
they
had
started
losing
twenty
percent.
There
would
be
a
lot
of
help
for
those
ranchers.
Our
beekeepers
need
help.
B
I
wanted
to
mention
this
particular
video
DVD.
You
can
rent
this
at
the
public
library.
You
can
stream
it
or
buy
it
or
get
it
for
yourself
and
share
it
with
your
neighbors.
It's
called
vanishing
of
the
bees
and
it
tells
about
the
beekeepers
in
their
situation
and
how
they
dealt
with
the
colony
collapse
that
was
happening
when
they
didn't
even
have
a
name
for
it.
So
an
award-winning
documentary,
also
over
in
the
table,
are
three
other
award-winning
documentaries.
You
might
want
to
note
take
note
of
now.
What
are
these
neonicotinoids?
B
They
are
a
systemic
insecticide,
their
powerful
neurotoxins
developed
in
the
1980s
and
introduced
in
the
mid
to
late
1990s,
and
now
they
are
the
most
widely
used
pesticide
in
the
world.
Globally
they're
used
in
horticulture
commodity
crops
on
the
farm
corn,
soybeans,
wheat,
cotton,
canola,
sugar
beets,
sunflowers
in
home,
use
you
can
get
them
at
your
hardware
store
or
a
nursery
and
they're
used
as
insecticide
sprays,
soil,
drenches
tree
injections,
granules
and
in
urban
forestry
they're
used
as
tree
injections
and
soil,
drench,
ins
and
I
want
to
say
something
here
about
tree
injections.
B
Many
the
city
of
Minneapolis
I,
don't
know
if
you're
aware
of
this,
but
they
there
is
a
concern
all
well.
We
all
know
that
there's
concern
here
in
Minnesota
about
emerald
ash
borer
and
our
ash
trees.
The
city
of
Minneapolis
made
a
decision
to
cut
down
40,000
ash
trees
over
the
next
eight
years,
rather
than
treat
them
with
neonicotinoids.
B
That's
pretty
significant
and
I
want
to
just
share
this
book
here,
bringing
nature
home
by
Douglas
Ptolemy.
He
talks
in
there
about
ash
trees
and
I
believe
he
says.
No,
no,
maybe
ash
trees
don't
feed
bees.
So
some
some
cities
are
saying
well
we'll
treat
use
neonics
on
these
ash
trees.
They
don't
feed
bees.
Bees
don't
go
to
them
for
their
pollen
or
nectar.
B
However,
there
are
about
150,
other
species
of
moths
and
butterflies
and
other
insects
that
do
use
these
trees,
so
they're
being
heavily
impacted
by
the
neo
necks
more
about
neo
necks,
their
effects
on
bees.
The
thing
that's
tricky
about
new
Nexus
there,
a
new
kind
of
pesticide
they're,
not
like
the
kind
of
old
the
in
the
old
days
when
I
was
growing
up
where
you
could
just
wash
it
off.
These
are
systemic.
B
If
your
immune
system
is
down
and
you
have
poor
nutrition
and
then
you
add
a
parasite
on
top
of
that,
and
and
the
list
goes
on,
I
mean
there's
so
many
reasons
that
this
would
do
it
in
a
bee.
Now
I
want
to
also
say
that,
with
this
neurotoxic
there's
there
oh
I
forgot
that
there's
ugly
I'll
get
back
to
that.
When
it
comes
back,
skip
my
mind
there,
Nero
neonicotinoids
are
synergistic.
That
means
there's
at
least
there's
one
I
was
reading
about
one
herbicide
when
it
was
used
in
conjunction
with
that.
B
If
Abby
went
to
that
herbicide
then
went
to
this.
It
was
like
a
thousand
times
more
toxic
scientists
have
figured
it
out
and
when
our
bees
exposed
to
this
they're
exposed
when
they're
collecting
nectar
and
pollen
they're
closed
when
they're
drinking
contaminated
water
during
seed
dust
from
the
seed
coat
where
the
part
of
the
coating
floats
off
and
prolonged
exposure
throughout
the
entire
growing
season,
because
neo
Knicks
last
in
a
plant
they're,
not
sure
how
long
it
depends
on
the
amount
they
used
and
a
number
of
factors
that
they
haven't
figured
out
totally.
B
Farmers
are
having
difficulty
finding
seeds
if
they
want
to
plant
conventional
crops,
they're
finding
difficulty
finding
seeds
that
are
not
coated.
We
need
to
help
our
farmers
find
be
able
to
find
seeds
that
are
encoded
and
thirty
percent
of
soybeans
are
coated.
They're
applied
to
a
hundred
and
fifty
million
plus
acres
annually,
and
a
recent
report
says
that
this
widespread
spread
prophylactic
use,
and
that
means
prophylactic
means
before
you
even
know,
if
there's
a
problem,
so
it's
preventative
sort
of
widespread
profile,
active
use
has
naked
to
fix
on
the
non-targeted
organisms.
B
B
Also,
research
has
found
that
there
are
no
yield
benefits
to
the
farmer
for
using
these
coated
seeds,
they're
less
cost
effective
than
alternative
methods
of
old,
and
they
are
have
unpredictable
if
efficacy,
even
for
the
targeted
pests,
even
for
the
pest
they're
trying
to
kill
it,
doesn't
necessarily
work
as
well
as
the
older
methods
did.
Let's
take
a
look
at
some
of
those,
so
alternatives
to
neonicotinoids
might
be
I
p.m.
or
integrated
pest
management.
Integrated
pest
management
uses
biological
rather
than
chemical
measures.
They
prevent
pests
with
crop
rotation.
B
They
introduce
natural
disease,
fighting
microbes
into
the
soil
because
they
believe
healthy
soil
makes
a
huge
difference
for
the
fighting,
the
diseases
and
the
Predators
that
they
have
a
release
of
special
organisms
that
prey
on
pests
and
they
use
chemicals
only
as
a
last
resort
and
they
targets
specific
pests.
So
it
isn't
just
a
broad-spectrum
thing
that
attacks
everything
that
comes
near
it
agroecology
is
also
something
that
is
used.
People
are
finding
new
and
different
ways
of
helping
our
whole
ecosystem
benefit,
not
just
bees
and
ponders,
but
the
whole
ecosystem.
B
We've
heard
of
cover
crops
before
and
we've
heard
of
crop
rotation,
improves
soil
health
and
disrupts
host-specific
pests.
Now
neo
niket
annoyed,
see
coatings
again
are
a
major
cause
of
environmental
contamination,
because
only
about
5%
of
the
seed
coating
actually
enters
the
plant.
Ninety-Five
percent,
the
other.
Ninety
five
percent
is
blown
fluffed
off
or
otherwise
dispersed
into
the
air
into
the
water
and
into
the
soil.
B
So
neo,
nicks
and
water
because
of
neonics
are
soluble
United,
States
Geological
Survey
sampled
streams
in
the
US,
and
they
found
that
fifty
percent
of
those
streams
are
contaminated,
and
here
in
the
Midwest,
where
we
have
so
much
corn
and
soybeans,
they
found
seventy-five
percent
of
those
streams
and
water's
contaminated
when
you
think
well,
what
are
we
drinking
we're
drinking
from
those
streams
and
drinking
from
getting
their
drinking
water
from
rivers
and
cleaning
that
up
and
drinking
from
well
water?
How
is
that
affecting
it?
Unfortunately,
it
has
very.
There
are
very
few
studies
about
that.
B
That
would
be
something
that
need
to
encourage
our
people
to
study
our
government.
What
about
food,
as
we
said,
UNIX
are
systemic.
They
are
absorbed
into
the
plant
through
its
vascular
system,
so
they're
found
in
plant
roots
leaves
fruit.
Their
present
in
many
foods
we
consume
daily.
The
residues
can't
be
washed
off
like
our
pesticides,
when
I
was
growing
up,
they
can't
even
be
peeled
off,
and
our
organic
food
supply
is
also
at
risk
because
of
drift
and
water
solubility.
B
Now,
let's
take
a
look
at
new
next
annoyed
pesticide
global
sales
growth
in
just
six
years,
the
sales
of
imidacloprid
and
thiamethoxam
grew
by
64
and
192
percent
I'm.
Going
to
let
you
read,
the
less
this
chart
is
also
in
the
be
briefing
paper
which
is
online,
that
you
can
find
and
I
won't
go
down
the
whole
left
side.
B
That's
what
they
made
if
we
go
to
the
very
end
in
2009,
just
six
years
later,
global
sales
growth
was
1
billion,
91
million
dollars,
and
if
you
go
down
the
row
at
the
end,
you
see
that
it's
a
multi-billion
dollar
industry
in
June
of
a
2014
the
WIA
was
released.
It
was
called
the
worldwide
integrated
assessment.
It
was
released
by
the
scientists
of
a
task
force
on
systemic
pesticides.
These
were
a
group
of
29
scientists
from
around
the
world
and,
I
should
say,
29
independent
scientists
as
opposed
to
industry,
funded
scientists.
B
These
were
independent
scientists
from
around
the
world
who
studied
over
800
over
a
four-year
period.
They
studied
800
different
documents
about
neil
nicks
and
fipronil
another
systemic,
and
you
can
find
their
information.
The
league
will
have
it
on
their
website.
Humming
for
bees
has
it
on
theirs.
You
can
find
the
whole
world
wide
integrated
assessment
there.
If
you
wish
to
read
it
or
if
you
wish
to
read
a
summary
there's
a
three
page
summary
called
the
press.
Well,
there's
a
press
release
and
a
media
briefing
page
and
that's
a
seven
page.
B
We
want
them
to
educate
farmers
regarding
alternatives
such
as
I
p.m.
and
organic
practices.
We
want
governments
around
the
world
to
replace
neonics
with
principles
of
prevention
and
precaution,
and
we
also
want
them
to
research
why
pesticides
have
replaced
proven
sustainable
agricultural
practices.
B
What
can
a
home
gardener
do
well
make
sure
that
you
don't
purchase
yo
tonight's
in
your
plants
or
in
plant
products?
Let
me
just
put
this
up
here.
This
is
another
sheet
by
the
League
of
Women
Voters,
and
it
talks
about
why
these
are
disappearing
part.
We
know
about
how
what
to
say
when
you
go
into
a
store
and
you
want
to
buy
a
plant
even
if
it's
just
a
hanging
basket.
B
B
B
As
we
said,
plant
clean
plants
plants
free
of
systemic
pesticides,
new
Knick
free
plants
that
bees
like
like
us,
they
have
their
preferences
plant,
a
diversity
of
plants
that
broom
from
spring
through
fall.
They
need
to
eat
spring
summer
fall
just
like.
We
do
plant
some
flowers
in
clumps
and
masses
so
that
they
don't
have
to
fly
all
over
the
place.
Bees
have
been
known
to
wear
out
their
wings
and
plant
live
with
some
leaf
damage.
When
you
be
at
a
plant,
you
know
our
nursery
centers
they've
been
caught
unawares.
B
They
thought
this
was
a
good
thing
when
they
started
using
it,
they
thought.
Oh
good,
our
plants
won't
have
a
fence
or
our
plants
won't
have
this
or
that,
and
they
won't
have
any
leaf
damage.
We
need
to
be
not
such
perfectionists,
because
that's
not
the
way
we
need
to
go
from
here
on,
tolerates
some
flowering
weeds.
Remember
the
bees,
don't
call
them
weeds
use,
IPM
in
practices
in
your
garden.
Do
stop
using
pesticides.
Stop
using
those
insecticides,
fungicides
and
herbicides
use
leaf.
Mulch
an
organic
compo
in
your
Gardens.
B
Ask
gardeners:
ask
organic
gardeners
how
they
do
it?
How
do
you
do
it
get
the
neighborhood
kid
to
come
over
and
hand
weed
your
garden,
learn
about
and
plant
some
native
plants
now,
in
addition
to
native
bees,
there's
native
plants,
then
that
means
plants
that
are
indigenous
to
this
area
and
thrive
in
our
soil
and
climate
and
there's
lists
all
over
the
Internet,
no
matter
what
area
of
the
country
you
live
in,
but
here
you
can
find
that
out
too.
B
Usually
they
have
long
roots,
so
they're
great
for
soil
retention
when
its
rainy
and
it's
great
for
moisture
retention
and
time
of
doubt
they
need
weeding
like
any
plans,
but
once
established
they
need
less
water
and
little
or
no
fertilizer
and
they
feed
both
honeybees
and
native
bees
and
I
need
to
mention
here.
Honey
bees
are
not
native
to
this
country.
They
were
brought
over
by
the
colonists
colonists,
one
of
their
honey
and
they
wanted
their
pollination
services,
and
then
they
brought
some
of
their
own
plants
to
that
they
wanted
here
in
the
new
country.
B
So
they
aren't
native
here,
but,
like
probably
just
about
all
of
us
in
this
room,
they've
been
here
for
a
long
time,
and
this
is
their
home.
Now
this
is
a
nice
picture
of
native
plants
notice,
the
turf
grass
on
the
left
look
how
long
its
roots
grow
down
so
times
of
drought,
people
into
putting
more
and
more
water
on
them.
Look
at
our
native
plants,
the
roots
go
down
this
one
and
they're
right,
there's
one!
B
That's
like
15
feet
long,
and
not
only
that,
but
when
they,
when
they
die
back
they've
kind
of
aerated
the
soil,
because
those
little
lines
are
in
there,
those
little
places
where
their
roots
used
to
be
are
in
there,
something
else
individual
citizens
can
do.
Let's
talk
about
our
yards
lawns
are
the
third
largest
mono
crop
in
the
u.s.,
especially
here
in
Minnesota
after
corn
and
soybeans.
B
Current
lawns
are
food
deserts
they're
sterile
they
don't
feed
bees
or
pollinators
and
Ron
Bowen
I
think
it
believe
he's
the
CEO
of
prairie
restoration
says.
If
the
only
time
you
use
your
lawn
is
when
you
mow
it,
you
don't
need
it
it's
time
to
create
the
new
paradigm
for
the
ideal
lon
and
you
might
be,
they
have
to
be
the
brave
one
to
start
it
think
of
it.
I
know
one
thing
I
love
about
driving
into
minneapolis.
I
love
seeing
their
boulevards
and
their
front
yards.
They
they
get
this.
B
They
have
started
planting
all
kinds
of
native
plant.
Gardens
now
consider
take
a
look
here.
Consider
replacing
most
of
your
lawn
with
areas
of
native
plants
consider
having
maybe
a
small
defined
border
of
grass
like
the
picture
on
the
left
here
and
yet
to
get
a
be
safe
yard
sign
or
to
be
planting
native
plants.
Your
yard
doesn't
have
to
look
that
nice.
B
There's
also
lomo
grasses,
that
the
u
of
m,
is
working
on
developing
so
consider
a
new
paradigm
for
our
lawn
bees
are
sounding
the
alarm
and
not
only
for
the
many
benefits
and
all
the
nutrition
and
beauty
we
get
from
these
creatures
and
from
our
butterflies
and
from
our
dragonflies
and
from
all
the
other
pollen
ears.
Bats
help
pollinate
things,
birds,
so
many
of
them.
They
are
part
of
the
very
ecosystem
we
depend
upon
to
sustain
life
on
this
planet.
B
One
of
the
things
you
can
do
is
to
support
save
in
America's
pollinator
act,
HR
House
of
Representatives
1284,
so
I
know
in
our
district.
Well,
let
me
just
put
this
little
sheet
up
here,
it's
over
on
the
table
there
and
it
talks
about
how
you
can
just
call
tap
into
the
zip
code,
a
certain
put
in
your
zip
code
on
a
certain,
because
you'll
have
to
see
it
over
at
the
table.
B
A
zip
code
over
at
the
House
of
Representative
find
out
who
your
representative
is
and
then
there's
a
toll-free
number
for
the
Capitol
switchboard,
and
then
you
can
just
say:
please
support
support,
HR,
12
84th.
This
is
what
you
can
do
in
a
national
level,
so
it's
been
around
and
it
just
because
it
says
the
pollinator
act
of
2015.
It
goes
through
2016
and
then
they'll
have
to
renew
it
for
two
years
again
and
it
was
started
in
2013,
but
we
still
haven't
had
enough
House
of
Representatives
people
sign
on
to
this
soap.
B
Please
bug
your
house
of
representative
person
and
then
in
Minnesota
some
things
you
can
do
tell
our
government
leaders
to
protect
pollinators
here
is
our
Department
of
Ag
Commissioner,
Dave
fredriksen
he'll
be
coming
out
soon.
We
hope,
with
his
report
on
neonicotinoids
here
in
minnesota,
we're
still
waiting
for
that.
Here's,
his
phone
number
in
his
email
and
ask
him
to
support
pollinators
to
protect
them,
actually
tell
governor
mark
dayton
when
a
bill
comes
along
that
protects
pollinators.
B
Please
sign
it,
tell
your
legislature
and
then
there's
a
information
to
find,
and
these
are
some
of
the
things
we're
encouraging
you
to
share
with
those
legislators
on
a
state
level,
the
two
yellow
ones.
The
top
ones
has
bands
systemic
insecticides,
including
neonicotinoids,
but
also
any
others
such
as
fipronil
and
any
other
ones.
That
they'll
develop
part
of
the
concern
with
stopping
some
of
the
scientists
have
said
we're
concerned
about
stopping
the
use
of
neonicotinoids,
because
they'll
come
up
with
something
just
as
bad
or
worse.
B
The
chemical
companies
will
well
make
sure
that
you
say
systemic
insecticides,
not
just
neonicotinoids,
because
they're,
not
the
only
one
out
there
and
they're,
not
the
only
one
that
they'll
develop
and
then
increase
clean,
pesticide-free,
pollinator
habitat
and
food
supply.
Isn't
it
ironic
that
this
little
creature
that
gives
us
so
much
variety
in
our
nutrition
that
they
are
starving
that
they
do
not
have
enough
to
eat?
So
we
need
to
plant
clean
plants
for
them
flowering
plants
support
over
here
on
the
Left
support
farmers
to
transition
away
from
neonicotinoid
coated
seed.
B
Some
of
them
don't
know
some
of
the
research
that's
been
done
and
they
still
think
that
there
may
be
you're
getting
some
benefit
from
it.
Others
do
know
and
are
having
trouble
finding
the
seeds
and
help
them
to
learn
alternative
methods
of
growing
crops.
That's
maybe
been
lost
in
a
couple.
Generations
now
also
increase
transparency
about
pesticide
use
by
enacting
a
pesticide
use,
reporting
law.
B
So
we're
able
to
find
out
if
our
neighbor
uses
some
kind
of
spray
will
find
out
what's
in
it
or
what
we
were
if
we're
coffee
and
our
kids
are
reacting
and
on
the
right,
restore
local
control
over
pesticide
policies.
That
means
that
if
your
city,
the
city
here
of
Bloomington,
decides
to
pass
a
resolution,
they
will
be
able
to
ban
or
restrict
the
use
of
systemic
insecticides,
such
as
neonicotinoids
on
city
property,
but
say
the
whole
city
got
together
and
said.
We
don't
want
it,
no
more.
B
We
don't
want
it
on
anyone's
lon
and
every
last
adult
and
child
and
everybody
agreed.
They
didn't
want
it.
They
could
not
pass
that
resolution
because
all
but
seven
states
have
a
law
on
the
books
saying
that
it's
called
the
preemption
law
that
states
are.
Cities
are
preempted
by
the
state
that
the
state
has
the
right
to
decide
if
a
whole
municipality
can
use
a
pesticide
or
ban
it.
That
should
be
changed.
B
People
should
be
able
to
decide
about
the
life
around
them
and
then
restore
the
2014
nursery
labeling
law
that
said
that
bees
apartme
plants
cannot
be
labeled
as
be
friendly
or
pollinator
friendly.
If
they
have
a
trace
of
neonicotinoids
in
the
common
sense,
it's
lethal
and
sublethal
it
either
kills
the
be
immediately
or
it
kills
them
later.
Because
of
all
those
things,
remember
it's
a
neurotoxic.
It
accumulates
in
the
bee
and
it
doesn't
go
away,
interferes
with
their
foraging
their
memory,
their
immune
system.
Well,
this
nursery
labeling
law,
people
thought
yeah.
B
B
That
sheet
is
over
there.
You
can
take
home
with
you
to
keep
to
one.
Other
thing
I
want
to
share
here
is
our
humming
for
bees
website.
This
is
our
resource
page
at
the
top.
If
you
are
from
a
different
city
anywhere
around
the
country,
actually
you
can
find
out
what
we
did
ensure
were
to
get
that
be
safe
city
resolution
passed.
It
says
how
we
did
it.
We've
got
resolution
examples.
We
did
it
in
Minnesota
in
2014
and
now
I,
that
was
july
of
2014
and
now
in
2016.
This
is
a
what
is
it?
B
That's
April,
hey
April
of
2016:
there
are
15
to
16,
I,
believe
16
or
more
cities
or
communities
across,
because
it
isn't
just
cities.
There's
been
some
townships
and
there's
even
a
school.
That's
passed
a
school
board
that
passed
it
for
all
their
schools
that
have
passed
resolutions
regarding
systemic
insecticides.
We
have
handouts
on
there
and
so
and
also
you
can
find
the
saving
america's
pollinator
act.
There's
also
freebie
video
links,
one
of
the
things
that
we
did
when
we
were
interested
in
talking
to
our
neighbors
about
pesticides
and
sharing
with
them.
B
What
was
happening
with
bees.
We
had
a
free
video
night
and
we
called
up
friends
and
neighbors
and
said:
hey,
come
on
over
see
a
free,
video
and
learn
about
bees
and
what's
happening
with
him,
and
we
showed
the
vanishing
of
the
bees
or
else
if
it
was
a
shorter
version.
I
mean
short.
Only
people
had
a
short
time.
We
would
show
dr.
B
Marla
specifics
why
bees
are
disappearing
and
you
can
find
that
right
under
freebie
video
links,
there's
also
about
clover
and
you
lon
a
couple
other
free
ones
on
there
and
then
there's
free
BVDs,
Part
B.
If
B
DVDs
they're,
not
free,
you
have
to
order
them
from
the
public
library
or
get
them
online,
and
then
there's
articles
research
articles
such
as
the
the
one
mentioned
about
the
worldwide
institute
of
the
worldwide
integrated
assessment
by
the
task
force
on
systemic
pesticides
and
and
then,
if
you
have
concerns
about
wasps
and
hornets,
that's
on
there
too.
B
D
Yes,
I
just
did
a
thing
for
my
parasitology
class
on
over-the-counter
medication,
nut
medications
but
flee
and
pesticide
McMillan's,
just
for
cats,
I
never
even
got
to
the
dogs.
There
were
so
many
and
fipronil
was
one
of
the
things
that
showed
up.
I
was
looking
for
organophosphates,
but
I
did
do
recall
a
lot
of
tip
Rennell.
Showing
up
is
that.
Are
you
seen
that
that's
also
systemic
like
the
neck
and
neck
nikita
noids?
It.
B
You
said
pesticides
or
herbicides
I'm,
just
going
to
clarify
we.
We
learned
in
this
process
that
pesticide
includes
any
of
the
sides,
so
that
means
herbicides.
Insecticides,
fungicides
rodenticides
includes
all
of
those
whatever
you
consider
a
pest
that
kills.
It
and
herbicide
refers
to
plants
or
herbs
insecticide,
so
I
any
there's,
not
an
insecticide,
because
it
insecticides
kill
insects
so
in
the
insecticidal
killaby
and
as
far
as
oerba
sides,
I
I,
don't
know
enough
to
answer.
Then
I'm
sure
there
are
some
that
there
are
some
that
people
have
said
they
use
what
they.
B
What
we
use
is
we
dig
them
out.
We
do
out
the
herbs
and
the
plants
we
don't
want,
so
we
dig
out
a
certain
Amanda
Lions
bloom
in
our
yard.
I
either
get
a
kid
in
the
neighborhood
to
go
around
cut
off
a
little
tops
so
that
they
don't
spread
because
I
don't
want
them
all.
Over
and
personally
I.
We
have
a
little
claw
thing
that
we
pull
back
the
peeping
Charlie
from
our
flower
beds
because
I
don't
want
it
in
there,
but
otherwise
we're
fine
with
it
and
we
plant
a
little
extra
clover.
B
So
there's
some
food
there,
and
so
that's
what
we
do.
I
heard
of
another
person
buying
a
little
plant
flame
thing
so
that
they
could
burn
a
plant
on
the
spot,
so
they'd
spot
treat
it
that
way.
Another
person
talked
about
using
vinegar
and
dish,
soap
and
water.
There
are
different
recipes
online
and
I
know.
There
are
two
on
our
under
lawns.
There
are
two
things
listed
regarding
organic
care,
lawn
care
and
they
have
different
products
that
they
use.
Maybe
they
can
advise
you
there.
Thank.
F
You
for
the
presentation
tonight,
one
of
the
things
that
came
to
mind,
as
you
were
talking
about
the
pesticide
issue
or
the
insecticide,
is
the
concern
about
mosquitoes
and
the
diseases
that
are
carried
and,
of
course,
that's
back
in
the
news
again.
So
how
does
that
fit
with
everything
you're
talking
about
tonight?
I,
wonder.
B
This
is
not
popular
among
a
lot
of
people,
but
I'm
not
really
excited
I
could
just
tell
you
my
own
personal
opinion,
I'm,
not
really
excited
about
that.
I
just
got
I'm
kind
of
wondering
every
once
in
a
while.
How?
How
can
we
more
interfere
with
nature?
I
mean?
When
do
we
get
back
and
learn
how
to
sort
of
live
with
it
or
learn
how
to
coexist
with
I?
B
Don't
know
I
don't
have
the
answer
for
that,
but
I
think
people
should
talk
as
cities
and
individuals
and
as
neighborhoods,
because
I
know
some
people
are
very
affected
by
by
that
sprain
and
sometimes
it's
sprained
and
not
pellet
dropping
so
I
wouldn't
want
the
sprain.
I
know
that
and
people
are
trying
to
have
organic
gardens
and
then
they
say,
and
then
they
r
you
are
sprayed
so
I,
think
it
depends
on
the
individual
unit
family
unit
and
neighborhood
unit
in
city
unit
that
they
need
to
come
up
with
a
plan
that
works
for
them.
E
You
believe
humans
have
come
to
the
point
where
they
feel
like
they
have
to
control
every
darn
thing
they
don't
like
sounds
again
and
I
am
I'm
really
concerned,
because
we
feel
like
were
the
Watchers
of
nature
and
the
controllers
of
nature
and
the
controllers
of
our
environment
and
time
and
again,
whether
it's
trying
to
control
a
bug
whether
it's
time
to
control
a
disease,
we've
gotten
it
wrong
and
I
think
we
all
have
to
think
about.
Do
you
feel
that
way?
I
mean
to
me
it's
a
very
frustrating
point
to
be.
You.
B
Know,
since
you
asked
me
personally,
I'd
say:
I
would
agree
with
you,
I
think
what
a
shame
I
mean.
We
have
this
wonderful,
beautiful
planet
and
look
what
we're
doing
to
it.
We're
trying
to
control
nature.
Would
it
there
used
to
be
a
commercial
out
a
long
time
ago
saying
something
about
mother
nature?
What
is
it?
What
was
that
one
about
you
can't
can't
mess
with
mother
nature
and
then,
but
no,
you
said
it
very
well.
Thank
you.
One.
G
Of
the
key
points
on
this
should
be
to
go
after
the
agricultural
company
is
the
cargill's,
because
what
they're
doing
is
they're,
they
actually
set
it
up
where
they
dictate
to
the
farmer
what
they
will
use
for
proceed
and
and
how
they
will
grow
it
and
there's
no
choice
left
the
farmers
are
not
independent
businessman.
A
lot
of
them
are
mining
the
soil
with
continuous
corn
and
they're.
C
G
We
have
an
economic
system
that
has
destroyed
the
private
independence
of
our
farmers,
so
one
of
the
things
might
be
did
it
really
encourage
those
companies
that
are
trying
to
break
that
monopoly?
And
then
the
other
thing
is
certainly
on
the
political
level
every
year,
every
three
years
correct
me
if
I'm
wrong
every
three
years
Congress
passes
a
multi-billion
dollar
egg
bill
and
that
is
fought
over
contentiously
and
I.
G
Think
that
one
of
the
things
is
to
fight
with
the
groups
that
are
fighting
for
clean
water
that
are
fighting
against
soil
erosion,
because
all
of
the
problems
that
you
identified
tonight
are
are
being
exacerbated.
For
example,
the
water
in
Minnesota
is
being
trashed
by
these
egg
interests
and
they
don't
bear.
They
don't
feel
any
responsibility
for
it.
You
know
I
mean
literally.
Our
rivers
and
streams
are
becoming
cargill,
sewer
for
the
multinational
corporation
that
doesn't
give
a
rip.
B
H
B
2013
December
of
2013,
the
European
Union,
did
ban
a
number
of
neonicotinoids
number
of
these,
and
that's
because
the
beekeepers
rose
up
and
went
into
the
cities
and
well
you'll,
see
it
on
that
vanishing
of
the
beach
you'll
see
what
happened
kind
of.
They
listened
to
the
people
and,
however,
it
was
a
two
year.
I
should
say
to
put
a
moratorium
on
it
for
two
years
and
now
this
is
the
time
where
they're
going
to
renew
or
review
it.
B
And
while
we
have
that,
while
we're
on
that
I
just
want
to
mention
that
there
you,
you
remember
Rachel
Carson's
book
that
came
out
about
DDT
Silent
Spring,
there's
a
new
book
out.
It's
called
poison
spring,
it's
by
a
whistle
bowl
from
the
EPA
EG
Valley
on
Antos.
He
worked
for
the
Environmental
Protection
Agency
for
25
years
and
now
lives
in
California,
and
he
talks
about
the
secret
history
of
pollution
and
the
EPA
it
might
be
worth
reading
any
other
questions.
Yes,
I.
I
B
Know
I,
don't
know
enough
about
all
flowers.
I
know
that
they
don't
like
everybody
doesn't
like
every
flower,
and
just
like
you
know,
the
monarch
really
needs
a
particular
flower.
What
is
it
the
thank
you
milkweed?
They
need
that
to
live,
and
some
of
our
native
bees
need
certain
plants
to
make
it
and
the
the
list
that
we
have
over
there
on
the
table
are
flowers
that
bees
do
like
in
Minnesota,
but
they
don't
like
necessarily
all
flowers.
B
Also
you
have
to
watch
out
for
some
of
the
new
flowers
that
are
being
developed
and
there
are
some
certain,
roughly
extra,
roughly
ones
that
have
a
lot
of
prettiness,
but
no
nutrition.
So
you
don't
want
something.
That's
been
real
tampered
with
for
your
garden
as
pretty
as
it
might
be.
If,
if
you
really
want
to
feed
pollinators,
so
I'd
say
get
online,
look
at
the
list
that
we
have
here
tonight,
look
at
other
plants
for
our
area,
and
while
you
mentioned
that's
jogging
something
else
in
my
mind,
and
that
is
I.
B
Remember
talking
to
Heather
home
from
Minnetonka
who
the
author
of
pollinators
of
native
plants
and
saying
oh
I'd
like
to
kind
of
amend
my
soil,
so
it
could
have
this
plant
or
whatever,
and
she
said,
Patricia
work
with
the
soil.
You
have
find
out
what
you
have
and
what
grows
their
work
with,
what
you
have
don't
amend
it,
use
it
and
I
thought
clay,
soil
joepie.
We
goes
great
there
and
butterflies
and
bees
love
it.
So
it's
it's
a
learning
for
all
of
us.
We
didn't
know
all
this.
F
B
Your
chances
of
getting
non-coated
seeds
would
be
very
pretty
limited,
I
mean
if
ninety-four
percent
of
the
seeds
are
coated,
so
I
would
recommend
the
only
way
to
know
for
sure
if
what
you're
planting
is
clean
for
sure
for
sure
is
if
you've
had
it
for
years
in
your
garden
and
you're,
just
transplanting
or
if
your
neighbor
and
you
know,
they're
organic
or
they
use
all
these
practices
and
never
use
insecticides
or
fungicides
and
are
careful
with
what
they
buy.
You
share
plants
or,
if
you
buy
organic
seeds,
that's
the
way
you
know
for
sure.
B
But
if
you
do
your
best
and
you
ask
in
the
the
nursery
owner,
you
know
says
this
works,
and
this
is
really
good.
Also
I
want
to
mention.
Did
I
mention
this
yet
the
friends
plant
sale?
These
are
two
really
good
sources
for
clean
plants,
Glacial
Ridge
growers.
This
is
a
wholesale
catalog.
I
will
have
it
over
there
free
to
look
at
they're
out
of
glenwood,
Minnesota
and
I
know
it
a
lot
of
coops.
They
deliver
flowers
that
are
implants.
You
know
vegetable
plants,
little
sets
of
them
and
the
friends
plant
cell.
Take
it.