Assassination Bee

BEE Killer

Preface: since this time the bees have come and gone and come and gone. I see them scouting the tree now again.

I have a huge mulberry in the front yard with many large limbs than need constant pruning. Men have earned spurs working on this tree. To its credit, the mulberry leaf is a favorite of desert tortoises who love to eat the leaves when they can get them. One limb the size of an adult waist was too near the  house and had to be removed. It turned out to be hollow! Where that leader joined the trunk was hollow too. A cut was slanted from the side however and left open. The angle was such it would not much rain to the inside. Things stood thus over a year and more, but that fall a colony of bees took up residence. We used to watch them slant and dart in the morning sun. Little kids got up close to see their coming and goings, always happy. In those years I began writing every day at 3 A.M. The bees were like thoughts that would fill the morning hours.  -this is the Smudge Report

Pyrethrum -Chrysanthemum 

 I did not seek out the info but it came to my door in the form of two salesbots with scripted tales of being in the neighborhood to tree -treat- "Kelly" Blossom, at Hank's old house promising:

"interior flushout, granulation barrier (reapplied every 60 days) extending 20 feet out from house, power spray, dust weepholes, deweb and treat eaves, spot treat pests in yard [assuming they see any]. good for ants spiders wasps mice."

But since mice are mammals, also affecting cats, children, quail,, doves, all birds, lady bugs, bees, butterflies, pill bugs, worms like paving over the yard. They say it's harmless because "plant based. " He said he would drink the solution!

Kills Beneficial Insects: 

 Pyrethrum toxicity: is highly toxic to most insects.

 
Best for Spot Spraying:Like any powerful compound, pyrethrum should be used only for spot-spraying heavily infested plants. You shouldn’t be dousing the entire garden with it. Exposure to even low doses may lead to toxicity in some cats.

 
Exposure to pyrethrum in high levels in humans may cause symptoms such as asthmatic breathing, sneezing, nasal stuffiness, headache, nausea, loss of coordination, tremors, convulsions, facial flushing, and swelling."harmful to fish, but are far less toxic to mammals and birds than many synthetic insecticides and are not persistent, being biodegradable and also decompose easily on exposure to light snake oil soap salesmen like Ecoshield--experience the bliss of pest-free living. Nevertheless, pyrethrum should be handled with the same caution as synthetic insecticides.are ecothreat spraying pyretheum, "plant-based" to innure from its danger, to kill ants spiders waspes mice, says the power spray, granulation barrier deweb and flushouts, not to speak of bees, butterflies, tortoises, cats children sick and every manner of life that sustains life, now poisoned because of the fear of a few large roaches. These are the Disclosure agents.