Honey Bees Endangered: This just in.......

From Barbara McDaniel Ray, in Atlanta, Georgia.....

The honey discussion is interesting, but for me the most important issue is pollination, Dale Ray, Ray Sutton, Charles Sykes.

As an avid gardener and wildlife conservationist, I recommend participation in the efforts of BeeAction.org, affiliated with the Friends of the Earth. As these organizations remind us" bees are the canaries in the coal mine". If we continue to use neonic pesticides, and ignore the plight of bee colony collapse, we do so at our own peril.

The list is lengthening of chemicals that are killing bees. We buy them in our garden centers and use them. For example this list includes acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. Check your labels fellow gardeners.