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“Beekeepers are in trouble and need to ask for your help,” says the letter from the Southern States Beekeepers Federation to newspapers throughout its area. “Every year our bees are killed by people who either don’t know how to apply insecticides or don’t care what insects they kill (the only good bug is a dead bug).
The beekeepers’ mailing is intended to interest newspapers in educating the public on the importance of care in the use of pesticides on blooming vegetable plants. “Only 1% of all insects are harmful,” it says, “and with just a little care, insecticides can be applied safely, we believe bee kills cm be reduced and we can make more honey.”
How much of a problem are pesticide bee kills in Rappahannock? “There’s a real awareness of the need to protect bees here because of the fruit growers,” said apiary inspector Bob Wellemyer. “Our problems are probably most likely to occur with the new’ gardener who is using pesticides on vegetable plants in bloom.”
Wellemyer is with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, working from an office in Warrenton. His home is in the Gid Brown Hollow' in Rappahannock. He and quite a few Rappahannock residents raise bees for honey and as a hobby. There is also some sale of honey in the county.
“Virginia, for some years, has been encouraging the use of integrated pest management (IPM) Wellemyer explained. “Because of the rapid spread of the Gypsy moth, there have been experiments on the state level w’ith wasps that act as parasites to the Gypsy moth catapillar! These and
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