We mow a lot of area. When I see moths, grasshoppers, bees etc I try to wait until they move but I am well aware I kill Many while mowing. This weekend I was helping weed a flower garden and was sitting right next to a grasshopper that couldn't fly. I'll bet one of us hit it with a mower. I feel very sad and guilty.
Glenn Wilson Endicott, NY www.WilsonsWarbler.com On Jul 22, 2014, at 7:33 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I posted about the moth week but did not emphasize on this talk on this Thursday 24 June from 6.30 pm to 7.30 by Dr. Jason Dombroskie on New York State Moths at Borg Warner Room of Tompkins County Public Library. According to me it is a must talk for all bird lovers. Jason is very knowledgeable and entertaining. There are studies showing dramatic decline in insect-eating-bird population due to a new class of pesticides. An example is http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/pesticide-contaminating-prairie-wetlands-scientist-1.2482082 A Saskatchewan researcher says many wetlands across the prairies are being contaminated by a relatively new pesticide that is threatening the ecosystem. Saturday day I was using the Roundup to kill some plants on my porch. I did try to scare away all the grasshoppers and other insects from the patch, but somehow one baby cricket got left in the patch and as I sprayed the plants a little bit of fell on it. It started writhing and acting weird. So I stopped immediately and ran inside the house to get some water to clean it off of the round up. But by the time I came back, in less than a minute the insect was dead! I poured water on it hoping it would revive, but to no avail. So now I have vowed myself that I will never use the roundup ever again in my life again! If I have to pull each and every weed I will do so. Those are nasty things. I would have not minded if I saw a catbird catch it for its babies! So be cautious of what you are using! Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --