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data from 37 experiments conducted around the world. Together, these tested the impacts of 31 different pesticides on the social behaviour of 11 different fish species.

The evidence suggests pesticides make fish less social, and this finding is consistent across species. Courtship was the most severely impacted behaviour — the process fish use to find and attract mates. This is particularly alarming because successful courtship is essential for healthy fish populations and ecosystem stability.

Source: Many fish are social, but pesticides are pushing them apart

I really don’t think I need to say much more. The article says all it needs to.
I guess one more point would be useful.

Long before pesticides reach lethal doses, they can disrupt hormones, impair brain function and change fish behaviour. Many of these behaviours are essential for healthy ecosystems.

Terrestrial ecosystems are impacted as well. Some are affected to a far greater extent because the toxins are not diluted. And if an animal rubs against them it must then lick it off it’s fur or feathers and ingest them.

If our “environmental organizations” are not actively and aggressively combating the current overuse of pesticides they are part of our problem, not the solution, and they are not the “environmental organizations” they claim to be.

Just three easy steps

😃 Good morning lovely people. I just sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks.

I asked for six things:

1) Read-only access to all the _public_ information contained in the PUPS databases for those parks

2) All and complete PUPS database records filed under each Park for the year 2019 whether or not the chemical application was in the park or outside its physical boundaries.

3) Total number of PUPS database records for each park for the year 2019 regardless of whether the material within the entry is designated “private”, “nonpub”, “nonpublic” or non-public.

4) All database heading classification/categories for any and all pesticide database records particularly any in the PUPS database for each of these Parks

5) Cicely Muldoon’s job description as superintendent of Yosemite and the date it was signed or authorized.
The current Sequoia superintendent’s job description and current Everglades superintendent’s job description as well

To minimize the chance of any of the pesticides provided in response to the above not being on my lists due to my poor spelling I am asking for:
6) The valid and full EPA registration numbers for all the pesticides or adjuvants approved or used in any way by these three parks for the last 6 years

Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5

Just three easy steps

Some of you are starting to smile because I have tried to circumvent the unfortunate “mistakes” that the nps made when the they answered my first FOIA request. The phrase “willful ignorance and strategic stupidity” comes to mind.  _And_, since Cicely Muldoon’s office emailed me that I would have to file a FOIA to even get her job description — I did 😄.

The Freedom Of Information Act actually makes it incredibly illegal that she didn’t have it on hand and online to simply email me but many people worry about bigger fish. I personally think it is _the small everyday things_ that are killing us.

The nps answered only two (feebly) of six questions the last time. How many of these six do you think they will respond to this time?

And people wonder why I am fine with the national park service administration getting reviewed and (polished?) lately. I am 111% behind the rangers. I am about 5% behind the administration which often works more for big industry than you/us. And the only time the administration thinks of our endangered animals seems to be when they want to waive them in front of our faces for donations.

On another subject:
How many of you are worried about eating plastic? How many of you have eaten plastics, industrial soaps, and detergents lately?
Well, we all have eaten all the above and in rapidly growing amounts even on organic products.

Because many industrial soaps and detergents, and liquid plastics are designated by the EPA as “inert”. These industrial products are increasingly used on crops, including organic. Many are even registered by OMRI and specifically labeled as _safe_ for organic use.🥴

They are sold as adjuvants, surfactants, spreader-stickers, and pesticide enhancers. Quite a few are the next generation of forever chemicals. Many are already being identified as endocrine disruptors. Some have been linked to damage to our intestinal epithelial cells. And there is _very little_ regulation, or even information on environmental breakdown, for most.

Anybody with:
1 gastrointestinal issues?
2 IFB?
3 Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI)?
4 Gluten issues?

Don’t worry be _Happy_. It is not even possible that we have all been poisoned by our food manufacturing system; particularly the pesticide industry right?
It _must_ be our genetics.

Many, many people try to buy organic because they realize that our farmed food is contaminated. But what they don’t realize is that while there are limitations on various pesticides there are no legal limitations on the thousands of “inert” toxins and adjuvents being sprayed on “organic” crops.

The epa has designated thousands of chemicals as “inert” as of the date of this post.  I could have done many more than the four examples below but this post is getting massively long 😃

Four examples (again – designated as INERT chemicals):

1)
1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, polymer with 1,2-ethanediol and alpha-hydro-omega-hydroxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl)

(polyester derivative)

2)
2-propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, 2-aminoalkylester, polymer with ethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, polyethylene glycol methacrylate alkyl ether and polyethylene-polypropylene alkyl ether

(An acrylic plastic)

3)
Phenyl tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane

(Industrial Soap/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)

4)
Siloxanes and silicones, 3-aminopropyl Me, Me stearyl

(Another Industrial Soap/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)

Remember these are all designated INERT along with several thousand similar products.
And I ran these four items independently through several AI engines requesting environmental breakdown times….

Summary Table:
1) Modified PET with PEG
High (decades to centuries)
PEG may enhance hydrophilicity but not significantly biodegradability

2) Complex Acrylic Copolymer
High
Stable backbone resists degradation

3) Phenyl Tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane Moderate to High
Phenyl group hinders hydrolysis

4) Modified Silicones
High
Functional groups have minimal impact on degradation

My double checking and verification agreed with this analysis and also generated several additional comments.

1)… “essentially non-biodegradable and can persist for hundreds of years. The breakdown primarily occurs through slow photodegradation and mechanical weathering rather than biological processes.”

3&4) ” Siloxanes have stable bonds between silicon, carbon and oxygen atoms, and there is perception that no microorganisms can cleave these bonds in nature.”

Do you really want to be eating these?  Do you really want our national parks to be spraying them and then hiding that information from you?

As little as 2 years ago; close to a dozen PFAS’s were also listed under this “inert” category by the EPA.

These chemicals are anything but “inert”. However, categorizing them as such makes it much easier on epa bureaucrats and the chemical industry.

We must start getting basic information on the chemical problems we are spraying _everywhere_. I believe we must create chemical free zones. #ChemFreeZones.

I believed that our _Toxic_ national parks would have been a good place to start these chemical free zones.

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/

But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

If you have received this as a forward and would like to continue receiving it please email me “vidaaquatic@gmail.com”
And if you would like to donate as little as $5 to the cause, you can Zelle it to vidaaquatic@gmail.com. thank you very much. Bob

Six steps to natural mosquito control. The Mosquito Bucket Challenge is a safe, affordable way to control mosquitoes without harming kids, pets, or pollinators.

Source: Mosquito Bucket Challenge – Homegrown National Park

This is a good idea in my opinion. And while it uses mosquito dunks which are a huge hazard in natural pond systems, this is not a natural pond system.

Mosquito dunks should not be used in areas that can run off into natural areas particularly if they have water. The BT toxin is incredibly toxic to many other small aquatic invertebrates. Small aquatic invertebrates such as baby dragonfly larvae that are going to ultimately eat mosquitoes. So if you allow this to run off you’ll be ultimately generating mosquitoes. To remove it and refresh it, maybe once a year, the best thing to do would be to pour it down the drain. Septic systems would be fine with this and municipal city water treatment plants would have absolutely no difficulty. I applaud anybody who uses this system instead of any other kind of pesticide.
Best to you all.

Source: Appellate Court to Cal Fire – You’re Making the Landscape More Flammable – Chaparral Wisdom

Yes! Our First Responders are awesome but manipulative regulatory boards are trying to profit on fires.

OTNP June 2025
Good morning lovely people.
If you want to help keep our children and grandchildren from being poisoned you must decide whether or not to do something active about it.

Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/just-three-easy-steps/

This is the kind of stuff I find all over the place. A decision made by the EPA in 2022 (BTW under Biden 🐸)

“AGENCY:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:
Final rule.

SUMMARY:
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of oxirane, 2-methyl-, polymer with oxirane, mono-C9-11-isoalkyl ethers, C10-rich, phosphates, potassium salts (CAS Reg. No. 2275654-37-8), when used as an inert ingredient (surfactant, related adjuvants of surfactant) in pesticide formulations used pre- and post-harvest as well as in formulations applied to livestock. Spring Regulatory Sciences, on behalf of Nouryon Chemicals LLC (USA), submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a tolerance for residues of oxirane, 2-methyl-, polymer with oxirane, mono-C9-11-isoalkyl ethers, C10-rich, phosphates, potassium salts (CAS Reg. No. 2275654-37-8), on food or feed commodities or when applied to livestock.”

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/16/2022-20040/oxirane-2-methyl–polymer-with-oxirane-mono-c9-11-isoalkyl-ethers-c10-rich-phosphates-potassium#:~:text=AGENCY%3A,when%20applied%20to%20livestock.

Hmmmmmm.
First of all I don’t agree that
oxirane, 2-methyl-, polymer with oxirane, mono-C9-11-isoalkyl ethers, C10-rich, phosphates, potassium salts …
is, as the final decision above states, “inert.” I also don’t believe that it should be sprayed on your organic produce.

And; more importantly, I don’t believe that it should be granted a waiver that “eliminates the need to establish a tolerance for residues” of it.  (Info) “A tolerance is a maximum permissible level of a pesticide residue that can legally be present in or on food.”
“The EPA can grant an exemption if it determines that [the chemical] will pose no hazard to the public health.
“The EPA [must have] enough data to assess the risks of the pesticide and conclude that no harm will result from the residue, even without a specific tolerance level.” —Wouldn’t you like to see that data?

And thirdly it’s use in “pre- and post-harvest as well as in formulations applied to livestock” without better documentation is sad.  And exactly why a half dozen forever chemicals were listed as “inert” 2 years ago. These forever chemicals probably had waivers as well

And on another matter I also do not believe that the national park service should be hiding the pesticide use in _Our_ _National_ _Lands_ . Give us _full_ access to the PUPS (pesticide use proposal system) database. Our national parks should not be Bayer, Dow chemical, and the rest of the chemical industries personal playground.

https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/what-can-anyone-do-about-the-pesticide-use-in-our-national-parks/

There are many people that will look at this and roll their eyes; even my friends, but I believe that the uncontrolled chemical explosion that has happened in the past 60 years is one of the greatest threats to this nation, our children, and our future.

I believe it is more important than the political parties convincing you that the next 4 years will make all the difference in the world. I believe it is more important than politicians from both sides who say one thing and do another.

People have completely and utterly lost control over the massive numbers of chemical toxins and their environments and they’ve lost control because they handed this over to politicians and PR Departments.

And if you don’t believe in the power of manipulation watch at least the last half of this.
https://youtu.be/qDkHCaNAo_w?si=fjTgUObFZ9lrnV2W

If you want to help keep our children and grandchildren from being poisoned you must decide whether or not to do something active about it. I believe that enough of us contacting our environmental organizations and convincing them to once again _be environmental organizations_ is the most important thing we can do in this world. I believe that there are actually just three easy things that we can do to significantly better the world, protect vulnerable humans and creatures from chemical atrocities.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/just-three-easy-steps/

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/

But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

If you have received this as a forward and would like to continue receiving it please email me “vidaaquatic@gmail.com”
And if you would like to donate as little as $5 to the cause, you can Zelle it to vidaaquatic@gmail.com. thank you very much. Bob

A recent email I received.

Quote:
Using IPM to Manage Pests in Lawns and Landscapes

California Department of Pesticide Regulation sent this bulletin at 05/27/2025 09:00 AM PDT

End quote

Unfortunately our California Department of pesticide regulation has sold out to the pesticide industry. These IPM departments are simply extensions of the chemical companies PR departments. They are incredibly well funded, have incredibly wonderful glossy images, and very actively but subtly promote pesticide use. And they are coming for your children’s and grandchildren’s public schools.
Google: IPM and public schools.