[CT Birds] about poisons today

[Carrier Graphics]

Read this recently on this subject.............

   "Evolution - the triumph of an idea"

By: Carl Zimmer - 


pg 243) “ About DDT and insect insecticide resistance:

By 1992, more than 500 species of insects were resistant to DDT, and the number is still climbing. As DDT began to fail, farmers at first just applied more; When more no longer worked, they switched to newer pesticides....
    The quest to eradicate pests with DDT and similar poisons has been a colossal failure. Each year more than 2 million tons of pesticides are used in the US alone. Americans use 20 times more pesticides today then they did in 1945, even though the newest pesticides are up to 100 times more toxic. And yet the fraction of crops lost to insects has risen from 7% to 13% - thanks in large part to the resistance insects have evolved.” 

 - it has been said, " When man eradicates himself from this earth, The Insects will become the dominant species." 

Paul Carrier