Letter writer William Gimpel Jr. of Bowie offered some comments recently on bees and pesticides ("Pollinator Protection Act won't save the bees," March 11). I would like to say that our best "pesticides" are birds. Or they were. Unfortunately, they are almost extinct now!
I used to wake up of a morning to the sound of hundreds of birds outside my window. Now it is rare to see even a few birds. Songbirds hardly ever. I suspect that our love affair with poisons have killed the birds. We spray our lawns and bushes and trees and flowers and vegetables with more and more poison. Any remaining birds come along and happily scarf up on the dead insects — which are loaded with poison!
With fewer and fewer birds to do the work, we need more and more poison! And of course the insects become more and more resistant to the poisons. Whoever would have guessed that? So we have to use more and more poison.
And we are eating all those poisons. I wonder if that could be why so many kids have so many allergies and so on? No, of course not. The poisons that are designed to kill all kinds of things are no problem for small children. Right?
David A Liddle