{"id":17245,"date":"2014-05-30T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17245"},"modified":"2014-05-30T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T12:45:52","slug":"the-perfect-crime-whats-killing-all-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/05\/30\/the-perfect-crime-whats-killing-all-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Crime: What&#8217;s Killing All the Bees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this introduction on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10154197529240301&#038;set=a.10150167454470301.407971.15771560300&#038;type=1&#038;fref=nf\" title=\"Intorduction on Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGARDENERS BEWARE: Many of the plants you buy at Home Depot and Lowe&#8217;s may be treated with bee-killing neonictinoids. Because there&#8217;s no clear labeling, many good-intentioned gardeners end up poisoning the very bees they are trying to help! (*Home Depot has indicated it is working on safer alternatives, but Lowe&#8217;s has not yet responded).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just one of the many things you&#8217;ll learn from our fascinating photo essay featuring beekeepers and experts! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/features\/the-perfect-crime\">Check it out<\/a>  The more you learn, the more you can help protect our bees!<\/p>\n<p>Help SPREAD this post as part of Bee Week! TELL US >> What alternatives to pesticides do you use in your garden?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The link above takes you to the article The <a href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/features\/the-perfect-crime\" title=\"Earth Justice article\" target=\"_blank\">Perfect Crime: What&#8217;s Killing All the Bees?<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/features\/the-perfect-crime\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xap1\/t1.0-9\/10329241_10154197529240301_8525927436143739588_n.jpg\" width=\"99%\" alt=\"Article on what's killing the bees\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>We are going to check with some of the local growers to see if their plants are free of these pesticides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this introduction on Facebook. GARDENERS BEWARE: Many of the plants you buy at Home Depot and Lowe&#8217;s may be treated with bee-killing neonictinoids. Because there&#8217;s no clear labeling, many good-intentioned gardeners end up poisoning the very bees they are trying to help! (*Home Depot has indicated it is working on safer alternatives, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17247,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions\/17247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}