Have I mentioned that we've been living in India for the better part of a year?
We live in a great little gated community of about 45 homes. The 'Community' is stellar, lots of kids to play, some pretty good spaces to hang out in. The POOL a tropical requirement, fitness instructors of all sorts who come to teach you Yoga, Tae Kwon Do, Bollywood dance, swimming, weight training and the like.
One would think that this is paradise, but the plan is to move. Why you ask? A little thing that they call 'Medicine'. Namely Organozone. Sounds fine doesn't it. Kind of has a derivative of 'Organic' in the name...Right? Medicine for your plants!? DEATH for your bugs.... or most of them anyway.
...And for our Kids... what does it mean?
Well according to the online research I've done, this Neurotoxin is known to increase the chance of ADHD, among other neurological problems.
For adults, among other things Parkinsons seems to be the one that stands out.
For our furry friends with their noses to the ground? I have been told by another resident that her small dog's eyes exploded after sniffing about the stuff!
For our garden.... it has spelled death. No really, a pesticide dependent garden with an infestation that is killing it.
You see Pesticides don't kill all bugs. It only kills the ones susceptible that cannot adapt to the poison. Those we can call the predator bugs - those that eat other bugs and create a properly functioning ecosystem, and pollenators - those that keep your garden green and growing, Those are the ones that die.
What lives and adapts? The almighty ant for one, and in our case the wolly aphid (Mealey bug).
To be fair, the ant is a predator, and they really do have a taste for wolly aphid larvae, but the problem is that ants don't like to 'dine out'... they usually do 'take out' because they like to eat at home with their queen. The problems is that they usually drop some along the way. Spreading their aphids all over the place.
The result? Lots and lots of dead and dying trees choked by our little fuzzy friends.
One would think that if the medicine don't work that you look for another solution. But unfortunately there are some really hard headed people in control here who don't want to listen to the logic of a change.
My Biggest beef is that our gardeners don't understand that what they are spraying is TOXIC. I don't know how they rationalize the giant headaches and dizziness that they get from being so close to it. But they also think that it is ok to go around spraying it all over our kids while they are playing.
This stuff smells like rotten cauliflower, thank goodness, so that when they decide it is coat the garden day, I can quarantine my kids in the house for the day with all doors and windows closed.
Maybe they could give some advanced warning?!
Before and after pictures spanning a year:
Before:
AFTER:
I think a picture is worth a thousand words....
Sherri
We live in a great little gated community of about 45 homes. The 'Community' is stellar, lots of kids to play, some pretty good spaces to hang out in. The POOL a tropical requirement, fitness instructors of all sorts who come to teach you Yoga, Tae Kwon Do, Bollywood dance, swimming, weight training and the like.
One would think that this is paradise, but the plan is to move. Why you ask? A little thing that they call 'Medicine'. Namely Organozone. Sounds fine doesn't it. Kind of has a derivative of 'Organic' in the name...Right? Medicine for your plants!? DEATH for your bugs.... or most of them anyway.
...And for our Kids... what does it mean?
Well according to the online research I've done, this Neurotoxin is known to increase the chance of ADHD, among other neurological problems.
For adults, among other things Parkinsons seems to be the one that stands out.
For our furry friends with their noses to the ground? I have been told by another resident that her small dog's eyes exploded after sniffing about the stuff!
For our garden.... it has spelled death. No really, a pesticide dependent garden with an infestation that is killing it.
You see Pesticides don't kill all bugs. It only kills the ones susceptible that cannot adapt to the poison. Those we can call the predator bugs - those that eat other bugs and create a properly functioning ecosystem, and pollenators - those that keep your garden green and growing, Those are the ones that die.
What lives and adapts? The almighty ant for one, and in our case the wolly aphid (Mealey bug).
To be fair, the ant is a predator, and they really do have a taste for wolly aphid larvae, but the problem is that ants don't like to 'dine out'... they usually do 'take out' because they like to eat at home with their queen. The problems is that they usually drop some along the way. Spreading their aphids all over the place.
The result? Lots and lots of dead and dying trees choked by our little fuzzy friends.
One would think that if the medicine don't work that you look for another solution. But unfortunately there are some really hard headed people in control here who don't want to listen to the logic of a change.
My Biggest beef is that our gardeners don't understand that what they are spraying is TOXIC. I don't know how they rationalize the giant headaches and dizziness that they get from being so close to it. But they also think that it is ok to go around spraying it all over our kids while they are playing.
This stuff smells like rotten cauliflower, thank goodness, so that when they decide it is coat the garden day, I can quarantine my kids in the house for the day with all doors and windows closed.
Maybe they could give some advanced warning?!
Before and after pictures spanning a year:
Before:
AFTER:
I think a picture is worth a thousand words....
Sherri
