By Amorina Kingdon

Amorina Kingdon is a science writer and an avid outdoorswoman. She lives on Vancouver Island and enjoys bees from a distance.

THE LOVE SONG OF J. APIS PRUFROCK

Let us go then, you and I, when the fields are spread with neonicoti(noids) like a bee displayed upon a needle. Let us go then, through certain half-deserted rows of corn that rustles, grows from corporate seed catalogs (all for low-end restaurants with soda and hot dogs). Bees that follow with a tedious hum but insidious poison may lead them to an overwhelming population crash. Oh, do not eat high fructose syrup! Let us ban neonics in Europe.   In the fields, the honeybees come and go trying to pollinate the rows.