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| Oct 10, 2015 at 9:08 | comment | added | stormy | Besides aphids, which are really no big deal, what other insect infestations are you dealing with? Tended bee colonies do not mean trained bees. They don't FEED on flowers, they collect the nectar and pollen to take back to the colony. ONE bee gets coated with a pesticide, holds pollen with pesticides and lives long enough to make it back to his hive, he brings that poison into the hive to do even more harm. What other insects are a problem and what is their damage? | |
| Oct 8, 2015 at 8:52 | comment | added | Justin Alexander | Well I am returning to the garden after a year away. Bug infestations on the trees are ... dramatic. So the pesticides are necessary for the time being. The area is residential and all of the local bee colonies are professionally tended, and feed on mostly wild flowers. I doubt my garden is either alone or sufficient to damage the local population from pesticide. Lucky me, the rains have come down HARD in the past few days, so the aphids are mitigated. gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/22029/… | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 21:13 | history | answered | stormy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |