What’s that? What are they? – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

In this scene the bees and their companions are leaving the village library and returning to Old Oak Meadow when they are seen by a young couple returning from an evening in the local pub. This story is written for the 8-12 year old reader but a number of adults have also enjoyed reading it.

Some teachers thought that there is enough in the story to form the basis for a whole curriculum of outdoor and nature learning and all wrapped up in a story, children will love. The thing they liked best is the multitude of topics covered, all which are such important starting points for vital conversations with young people. The book has also been well received with the Scottish Beekeepers Association putting a copy of it along with the first book, Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow, in their Edinburgh library.

The story is available as an ebook or in printed form globally on different Amazon websites and here are a couple of links https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/ and https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/.

There are also T-shirts and long sleeve T-shirts available for children of the cover artwork with or without the book title, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/. 

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In the library – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

In this illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, named after Rachel Carson’s ground breaking book, the bees have broken into the village library. They didn’t actually break in because a small window was left open and they went to look up the meaning of the words that they had seen on the containers they found in the dark barn. A complicated story perhaps? The story is written for the 8-12 year old reader but a number of adults have also enjoyed reading it.

Some teachers thought that there is enough in the story to form the basis for a whole curriculum of outdoor and nature learning and all wrapped up in a story, children will love. The thing they liked best is the multitude of topics covered, all which are such important starting points for vital conversations with young people. The book has also been well received with the Scottish Beekeepers Association putting a copy of it along with the first book, Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow, in their Edinburgh library.

The story is available as an ebook or in printed form globally on different Amazon websites and here are a couple of links https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/ and https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/.

There are also T-shirts and long sleeve T-shirts available for children of the cover artwork with or without the book title, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.

Our links

See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

The meeting in the meadow – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

In this illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, named after Rachel Carson’s ground breaking book, the bees of Old Oak Meadow have arranged a meeting in the clearing of all the creatures that could travel there. They had discovered some containers with the skull and crossbones on them in a dark barn in one of the farms bordering the meadow and want to discuss what they have found. The story is written for the 8-12 year old reader but a number of adults have also enjoyed reading it.

Some teachers thought that there is enough in the story to form the basis for a whole curriculum of outdoor and nature learning and all wrapped up in a story, children will love. The thing they liked best is the multitude of topics covered, all which are such important starting points for vital conversations with young people. The book has also been well received with the Scottish Beekeepers Association putting a copy of it along with the first book, Busy Bee and the Endangered Meadow, in their Edinburgh library.

The story is available as an ebook or in printed form globally on different Amazon websites and here are a couple of links https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/ and https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/.

There are also T-shirts and long sleeve T-shirts available for children of the cover artwork with or without the book title, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.

Our links

See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

Tell Target CEO Brian Cornell:

Bees, butterflies & other pollinators are in crisis. Across the country, native bee species are disappearing & monarch butterflies have declined.

A major cause of this decline is widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides. Despite their devastating effects, they remain on store shelves & in products sold nationwide.

Please protect pollinators by committing to stop selling neonic pesticides.

#Neonics #EnvironmentalAction #Petition
https://environmental-action.org/take-action/tell-target-stop-selling-bee-killing-pesticides/

Europe bans neonics after scientific evidence shows them terribly harmful to bees and birds (and bats and amphibians and everything that eats insects), and the birds start a slow recovery years later.

In contrast, Canada's #capturedregulator refuses to ban neonics and there is no #biodiversity bounceback, just more declines. Canada's boreal forest and prairie pothole region are the bird nurseries of North America, and they are polluted.

https://davidsuzuki.org/press/reports-of-industry-interference-in-pesticide-decision-must-be-investigated/

#CdnPoli #Neonics #Shameless

Le Monde : excellent article sur les alternatives aux néonics pour la betterave sucrière, sur le travail de l’Anses et sur le foutage de gueule.

Attal et Pannier-Runacher : faut qu’on demande son avis à l’Anses pour que « les décisions soient prises avec la meilleure connaissance des données scientifiques disponibles »

Hervé Jactel, Inrae et Anses : « il existe des solutions alternatives à l’usage des néonics pour la lutte contre les pucerons de la betterave à sucre, tout aussi – si ce n’est plus – efficaces que l’acétamipride ». L’Anses l’a déjà expliqué deux fois, mais peut recommencer.

#LoiDuplomb #acétamipride #néonics #Anses

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/07/22/loi-duplomb-des-solutions-alternatives-efficaces-et-operationnelles-a-l-acetamipride-existent-depuis-des-annees-selon-l-anses_6623015_3244.html

#LoiDuplomb #acétamipride #néonics #biodiversité

Sur Inter hier, 20mn avec :

Philippe Grandcolas, écologue, directeur adjoint scientifique national pour l'Écologie et l'Environnement au CNRS

Pierre-Michel Périnaud, médecin et président de l'association "Alerte des médecins sur les pesticides"

La pétition aura permis ça, aussi : des antennes ouvertes à des prises de parole scientifiques, sans être noyées dans celles du lobbying strictement économique, avec fake scientifique inclus. Des scientifiques qui sont aussi des militants, c‘est vrai, mais les sociétés savantes se sont prononcées sur des bases scientifiques, pas militantes.

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien-du-mardi-22-juillet-2025-6963993

Samedi 19 juillet, 16 heures.

500 000 signatures à la pétition Assemblée nationale contre la loi Duplomp.

\o/ 💪 ÇA, C’EST FAIT !

#Pétition #LoiDuplomb
#PétitionLoiDuplomb
#500K
#StopLoiDuplomb
#néonics
#biodiversité
#EleonorePattery

Vous écouterez le « C ce soir » de ce soir ! Sur la #LoiDuplomb, les #pesticides, les #néonicotinoïdes #néonics etc. avec un #DominiqueBourg, un #GaspardKoenig et #IsabelleSaporta impecs – et une représentante de la coordination rurale lamentable, un sénateur Horizon bien nul, ça ne vous étonnera pas !

https://www.france.tv/france-5/7165643-pesticides-coup-de-force-contre-l-ecologie.html#src_medium=4&src_campaign=pesticides_coup_de_force_contre_l_ecologie&src_aff_type=%5Bpartage_video%5D

C’est chiant : on sait tout parfaitement, on sait l’effondrement le l’entomofaune, les sols appauvris dépendant exclusivement de la chimie, les problèmes de l’eau… et comme on ne veut pas aider les agriculteurs en faisant la transition, on fait de la merde pilotée par des gros céréaliers riches. Y en a marre !