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Birds do it; bees do it
NYT op-ed: pesticides wiping out songbirds |
Tom Philpott |
31 Mar 2008 |
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| When the little bluebird Who has never said a word Starts to sing Spring ... It is nature, that is all, Simply telling us to fall in love. -- Cole Porter, 'Let's Do It' The immortal refrain of an old Cole Porter chestnut -- 'birds do it; bees do it' -- has taken on an ominous ring. Evidently, songbirds have followed honeybees by engaging in a massive die-off. (Bats, whose mating rituals evidently didn't capture Porter's fancy, are dying off as well.)According t ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, extinction, food, health, organic food, US EPA (all these topics) |
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