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as well as the decline of other insects. Are the FDA & EPA slowly allowing Bayer to kill us indirectly? Half-life in heavy soil of residue from treated seeds (corn, canola) is approx. 19 years. No bees or other pollinators, no birds, no crops.
For what its worth, nicotine insecticides have been promoted for decades as a "natural" alternative to commercial chemical incecticides. A google search finds how to make nicotine incecticicde tea on many green living and natural websites. Its not the commecial companies alone that are to blame, natural, organic, green or whatever you want to call it groups have been usining nicotine for a long long time.
Funny what the Garden Web (an organic web site) has to say about nicotine:
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15. Tobacco products - this is definitely a classic natural pesticide, but most organic gardeners today stay away from it. It may kill beneficials too if abused. It can cause diseases on tomatoes if not properly used. Most modern pro-tobacco pesticidal tea experts suggest to brew a tobacco tea no more than 30 minutes, to be safe enough to not harm beneficials like bees and ladybugs. You can mix in a liquid soap as a spreader-sticker. NOTE: Do not use tobacco teas on nightshade family crops. Also recent research has proven that the available nicotine produced in a tobacco tea is not the same stuff as nicotine sulfate. It is much safer than nicotine sulfate or rotenene. Just one drop of pure nicotine sulfate on your skin can may you sick. Homemade tobacco teas have great knock down power for tough pests like Japanese beetles. Chewing tobaccos are the most safest, natural forms for these homemade tobacco teas
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