I live in Idaho and Mike Simpson is one of my representatives. I just sent him a note encouraging him to withdraw the rider that contains language that would shield pesticides from legal liability.
"We" (the REAL American Patriots) already have Mike Simpson lined up for criminal prosecution for his role in these crimes against humanity and Treason, so all he has done is to sign his own "death warrant" that will be part of the future Tribunal process that has been ongoing for quite some time now~!
We called and wrote to our Rep. Mike Simpson. He was PROUD of this rider. See our most recent Substack note and call for action, which also includes screen shots of the letter we received from his office
How measured of you! I would be encouraging him to do something more drastic, to himself. It makes my blood boil to see someone use their position as an elected official to drive forward this sort of retrograde proposal. That said, my Member of Parliament is a complete waste of space, so I suppose at leats yours gives you something to resist.
1) My favorite form of pest control is biological pest control (where you put predatory insects in the crops and have them eat the pests). This has been used for the potato beetle, although it seems to work better as part of an integrative pest management program than a monotherapy.
2) You raise a great point with the rna "pesticide" technologies and I'm wondering if this also dovetails with the mRNA vaccine push for livestock.
Dr. Lawrence Gilbert is a tenured professor at UT-Austin. A couple of decades ago, he went to Brazil, where the fire ant population was curiously in check, at the same time the fire ant was ravaging the southwestern US. He said, "Hmm, wonder why?" Turns out, there's a little tiny fly, that is a natural predator to the fire ant. Upon careful research and limited importation and distribution, these flies have been released and guess what? There are still fire ants, but they're under control and no longer on the march.
That’s very interesting. Dr. Walter Tschinkel, an entomologist expert on fire ants, has a Substack newsletter and often writes about them. Do you have a link to any research paper that the UT professor has published?
Brackenridge Field Lab is where the research took place and Dr. Gilbert has been the director there for many years. When I said "a couple of decades" it's likely twice that now. They used to have a display under glass with an operable lid attached to a string, that protected the ants from the flies. Raise the lid and the ants go bonkers; it's really amazing. I'm sure there are loads of papers, but check out: https://fieldstations.utexas.edu/research/invasive-species-research/fire-ant-research
When will we stop interfering with mother nature and respect our earth for what it is and not try to improve on the balance of nature by manipulating the blueprint of life! The deranged medicine man believes he is God like and can change the course of humanity for the better which is not possible! The American Indian, thanked mother nature for their existence and the fruits of life that were given to them. We have lost that.!
Seems to me the aphorism...look before you leap...was never truer than when messing around with mother nature and particularly so in large scale agriculture. Seems wiser to move back into tried and true methods relying less on all chemicals and more on sensible soil conservation methods. Will take decades to determine just how much damage has been done to us by all the crap they have come up with to improve profits without any consideration about long term physio effects.
When Mother Nature sends us a message that we are not living harmoniously with her, there is always some technology that comes along to try to outsmart her, so humans can gain the upper hand and bend Mother Nature to our will. This episode will surely end the same way all the other efforts to outwit Nature did, and many will suffer. Living in synch with nature appears to be less profitable. It is, until it kills you, and your neighbors, and your family.
In western PA where I live, crops are rotated year to year. I'm not aware of any millionaire farmers around here. Corporate super farms ain't 'round here. When a food source, like potatoes for the mentioned beetle, is consistently available and fertilized, what else should we expect, right?
It's nature's way, and of course, the human way to try to push nature out of the way.
It never worked and it never will. Greed and stupidity. The Idaho potato economy is not sustainable in its current guise. How it needs to change I can't say. Perhaps some potatoes needs to be replaced by other crops. Whatever it is, the change must adapt to nature's call, not try to over ride it. Such is my humble opinion.
Yeah, decades of doing things a certain way can't be sustained if it takes poisons and experimental materials to preserve it. The beetles aren't the problem IMO. They are just doing what nature does. Hopefully we can come up with alternatives to poison treatments of our food supply.
Did we learn nothing when in 1986 we removed liability from Big Pharmaceutical Corporations? These open ended blanket immunities are dangerous. Lobbyists and money! The building trades are on the other end of the spectrum. The building codes have gotten so complicated the people that write them don’t understand what they mean so they can’t be implemented. Imagine giving a building contractor blanket immunity from all liability-insane right? Giving Big Chemical Corporations blanket immunity is the definition of insanity especially with what we’ve been through with vaccines.
Being that my husband was in the lumber and building business, I heard plenty. Some regulations are needed (for the shysters) but the feel of power is just too much for some to resist and here we are. Over and over again. Humans are dense and stubborn to our undoing.
“….Mike Simpson’s rider is completely contrary to the principles of the Make America Great Again movement.”
Did you mean to say “….contrary to the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement”? The principles are two sides of the same coin, so it is easy to see why one could be flipped for the other in discourse. 😉
Thanks, Dr. Malone, for alerting us to this important information.
For as long as these "rider" inclusions have been used to slip in other agendas, who is watching the hen house besides you? If this was such a good idea it wouldn't need to be hidden as so many others are. What an underhanded approach to so many bills. These people who are intent on saving the farmer are actually destroying the land, insects and finally the people. Big ag. is not much different than any of the other schemes used to frighten the masses. This is just a bigger and better approach to toxify and make it sound like they really care. URGH! I'm calling now.
I live in Central Wisconsin. Just past the street one house away from mine is a 640 acre field that grows a lot of Potatoes., corn, and soy beans. All summer long there are crop duster plane spraying that field. in the fall they spray a defoliate on the potatoes to make harvesting easier and right sized potatoes. Ditto the Soy Beans. I believe Glyphosate is the main chemical sprayed.
I had already contacted my Representative, Congressman Derrick Van Orden, who is on the Agriculture Committee during the 1st round of hearing about the plan to exempt these pesticide companies from liability. Looks like it needs to be done again given this RNA technology. Anyone else on this comment section that lives in Wisconsin may wan to do the same.
When a biological approach can reduce the beetle population by 75% without the harmful side effects and unintended consequences, gee, maybe BigChem needs to be cut out of the loop. Too many congressmen dancing to the big money pipers. Hello, Mike Simpson.
Is it possible to interfere with the fertility of potato bugs? It seems I read somewhere that that has been done with mosquitoes. We seem to have figured out how to inhibit human fertility🫤. We must not allow amendment 453 to remain!
Thank you for covering this. I believe I've grasped the particulars of the potato threat and these folks answer.
I am a bit lost as to whether these insects are a major threat to all US potato growers or just primarily Idaho growers. Im further having problems with the implication that this rna solution would need to be evaluated against 5.5 m. insect species. The issue is, to me, more the impact on the treated potato consumers.
Perhaps the better answer in this instance is to decline liability protections as a general practice. They shouldn't have been/be available for vaccine purposes or pesticides.
While the Government is rethinking a strategy for sharing the burden of injuries from toxicities of vaccines, perhaps they need to further consider their role in supporting crop protection strategies. ie Where studies demonstrate toxicies of a proposed pesticide application and such toxicity levels are deemed acceptable for humans - should this prove in error - consider some shared level of support for the injuries.
I am against our goverment authorizing a blanket liability protection I'll continue to reflect on a way to address this to my elected officials. Sorry - my mind is shorting out at the moment.
Don’t recall reading (and there’s no search function thru text), but has Bt (Bacillus thuringienisis?) stopped working? Yes, it needs to be reapplied after rain/heavy irrigation - my recollection is that it has a similar mechanism.
I used the biological control method in my potato patch: throughout the season I would patrol the hills, fluff the leaves to inspect the undersides of leaves and whenever I saw a "raft" of orange eggs I would smear it — simple, labor intensive (yes), effective - don’t remember last time I saw an adult potato beetle nor damage to my plants. Same thing works for asparagus beetles ‘cept your catching/squishing the adult bugs (the crunch is satisfying, if not a little sadistic).
⁉️💡: how’bout we implement a catch and release program for all the non-violent / criminal invaders - catch&release into our agricultural fields, feed&house, they no like working they can go home. It’s a win-win-win scenario: we’re not using chems or biologicals on our food or at least its use is minimized, the invaders have the possibility of a green card for good behavior and their offspring a few generations out can apply for citizenship and, most importantly, the crying dems get their cheap food AND can satisfy that master-slave gene they so willingly wish to express
Clever lawyers in DC working on behalf of special interests just keep degrading the health of future generations. The last 5 years is a testimony to their ability to manipulate the truth to move the deep state agenda forward and gas lite the Congressman! More to come!
It is actually IMPOSSIBLE to pass valid laws and/or acts that permit the Intentional harm and/or murder of another/other's, outside of the appropriate criminal court process OR legitimate justified military process~! The NAZI's of WWII passed many laws that were "legal" but COMPLETELY unlawful, and that didn't go well for many of them in the long run. So, this garbage of exempting anyone or any company or agency from criminal and/or civil prosecution is just a sick game of the criminals of humanity who are very likely already in line for the criminal Tribunal process today~! Nice try, but there is absolutely no way that you criminals will escape justice one way or another now, and you can't say that you were not warned well ahead of time... I would like to personally thank ALL of those who have signed there own "death warrants" by partaking in these efforts to get immunity for your many crimes against humanity and Treason~! HA~! That is indeed VERY accommodating of you, because by virtue of these very efforts to supposedly "legalize" your atrocities, you have in fact functionally admitted that they always were crimes to begin with and that makes "our" jobs much easier! Thak you, thank you very much~! Ha Ha Ha!!! Oh, and EVERYONE who supports these efforts to legalize these most atrocious attacks upon humanity in the historic record, will also be subject to criminal and/or civil prosecutions as accomplices before and/or during and/or after the fact~! Have a nice day~!
Another option is Bonide's Colorado Potato Beetle Beater. The active ingredient is .05% Spinosad, a mixture of Spinosyn A and Spinosyn D produced by the fermentation of the soil bacterium Saccharopolyspora spinosa. Many products containing spinosad are approved for use in organic farming. Manufacturers recommend using it in the evening when bees and other beneficial insects are less active.
I don't grow potatoes, but the beetles were munching on the leaves of my ashwagandha plant, which is in the nightshade family. I bought the Bonide product and set the unopened container next to the plant, intending to use it the next day. Went back the next day and no sign of the beetles. Think what you want. I never had to use it and the beetles have not returned.
I'll go with some kind of psychic communication between you and the beetles that got reinforced by the physical container. Looks like they got the message. You grow ashwagandha? Cool. I wonder if it grows in central/southern Minnesota.
Lol, I don't discount that they got the message. Ashwagandha will grow as an annual in any temperate zone. Looks like you're Zone 6 on the Minnesota zone map. I'm in 6b in New Hampshire. I actually grow it as a specimen plant; I bring it inside in the winter in a large pot instead of harvesting the roots. I've kept some for up to three years, then they sort of peter out. In India the 2nd year roots are used. I find it a lot easier to just buy a good quality supplement - Natural Factors, Oregon's Wild Harvest and Organic India are some in capsule form. My dog gets the powdered root for its calming effect.
You need a sample letter to Conressional Reps and Senators.
Date
Address
Dear Rep [last name],
I am concerned about agricultural methods, farmer health, consumer food health, and the Section 453 pesticide liability shield in the Department of the Interior appropriations bill.
The liability shield states:
15 PESTICIDES
16 SEC. 453. None of the funds made available by this
17 or any other Act may be used to issue or adopt any guid
18 ance or any policy, take any regulatory action, or approve
19 any labeling or change to such labeling that is inconsistent
20 with or in any respect different from the conclusion of—
21 (a) a human health assessment performed pursuant
22 to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
23 (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.); or
24 (b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide.
Small Off-Road Engine Waiver Sec 454. etc etc etc
The term pesticides includes both existing and future pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides. One well-kown existing example is Roundup (glyphosate), as manufactured and sold by Monsanto/Bayer, where environmentalists cite that potential harms to farmers and gardeners seem to exist and must be investigated further, with revised warning labels produced and attached, as proven.
Moreover, a future example is Ledprona, an ingredient in Calantha, a double-stranded RNA biopesticide, which attacks the Colorado potato beetle, by attacking a gene that produces a protein vital to beetle eating and survival.
Ledprona "has demonstrated efficacy comparable to conventional insecticides like spinosad in greenhouse and field trials. Approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December 2023 for a three-year period, ledprona is classified by the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) under Group 35 (RNAi-mediated targeted suppressors), representing a novel mode of action.
"The manufacturer claims that the high specificity minimizes harm to non-target organisms, such as pollinators, and that it degrades quickly in the environment, supporting biodiversity and sustainable pest management. Ledprona is applied as a foliar spray, compatible with standard potato farming practices, and is part of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies to combat insecticide resistance, particularly in regions like Idaho, where the beetle is a significant threat.
"However, some environmental groups, like the Pollinator Stewardship Council, have raised concerns about potential unintended ecological impacts, citing insufficient research on non-target species.” Reference: "RNA as a Pesticide and Indemnification,” Robert W. Malone MD, MS, newsletter dated Aug 13, 2025, using Grok AI.
Because it is so new, Ledprona has not been tested to learn its effects on non-target insects and arachnids, like honeybees, spiders, ladybugs, etc. Also its effects on snails, snakes, birds, bats, and so forth.
Because it is so new, Ledprona has not been tested to learn its effects on the people eating potatoes or other vegetables and fruits on which it was sprayed. The Section 453 rider and liability shield precludes a person who is harmed from collecting a legal health and injury damages award. It even prevents a revised warning label from being attached to the ledprona bottle/package.
Please work with other Congresspeople interested in farming and human health to remove Section 453, the pesticide liability shield, from the Dept of the Interior Appropriations bill. [ED NOTE: NAME another Congressman with whom they might work? Or skip.]
I live in Idaho and Mike Simpson is one of my representatives. I just sent him a note encouraging him to withdraw the rider that contains language that would shield pesticides from legal liability.
Nice work Patriot WRF~!
"We" (the REAL American Patriots) already have Mike Simpson lined up for criminal prosecution for his role in these crimes against humanity and Treason, so all he has done is to sign his own "death warrant" that will be part of the future Tribunal process that has been ongoing for quite some time now~!
Have a great day~!
Sincerely, Mike
Thank you!
We called and wrote to our Rep. Mike Simpson. He was PROUD of this rider. See our most recent Substack note and call for action, which also includes screen shots of the letter we received from his office
https://substack.com/profile/68304299-big-e/note/c-145301812
How measured of you! I would be encouraging him to do something more drastic, to himself. It makes my blood boil to see someone use their position as an elected official to drive forward this sort of retrograde proposal. That said, my Member of Parliament is a complete waste of space, so I suppose at leats yours gives you something to resist.
1) My favorite form of pest control is biological pest control (where you put predatory insects in the crops and have them eat the pests). This has been used for the potato beetle, although it seems to work better as part of an integrative pest management program than a monotherapy.
2) You raise a great point with the rna "pesticide" technologies and I'm wondering if this also dovetails with the mRNA vaccine push for livestock.
Dr. Lawrence Gilbert is a tenured professor at UT-Austin. A couple of decades ago, he went to Brazil, where the fire ant population was curiously in check, at the same time the fire ant was ravaging the southwestern US. He said, "Hmm, wonder why?" Turns out, there's a little tiny fly, that is a natural predator to the fire ant. Upon careful research and limited importation and distribution, these flies have been released and guess what? There are still fire ants, but they're under control and no longer on the march.
53rd - But but but...consider the poor chemical corporations! How could they capitalize on little tiny flies?
They could sign up for welfare, oh wait, they're already on welfare...
That’s very interesting. Dr. Walter Tschinkel, an entomologist expert on fire ants, has a Substack newsletter and often writes about them. Do you have a link to any research paper that the UT professor has published?
Brackenridge Field Lab is where the research took place and Dr. Gilbert has been the director there for many years. When I said "a couple of decades" it's likely twice that now. They used to have a display under glass with an operable lid attached to a string, that protected the ants from the flies. Raise the lid and the ants go bonkers; it's really amazing. I'm sure there are loads of papers, but check out: https://fieldstations.utexas.edu/research/invasive-species-research/fire-ant-research
Thank you! Here’s some information on Dr. Tschinkel that you might find useful. He’s one of my favorite Substack authors.
https://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty.php?faculty-id=tschinkel
Is Mike Simpson related to Homer Simpson?
I'm asking for a friend........
When will we stop interfering with mother nature and respect our earth for what it is and not try to improve on the balance of nature by manipulating the blueprint of life! The deranged medicine man believes he is God like and can change the course of humanity for the better which is not possible! The American Indian, thanked mother nature for their existence and the fruits of life that were given to them. We have lost that.!
See my post above about living in Wisconsin and contacting Derrick Van Orden
Seems to me the aphorism...look before you leap...was never truer than when messing around with mother nature and particularly so in large scale agriculture. Seems wiser to move back into tried and true methods relying less on all chemicals and more on sensible soil conservation methods. Will take decades to determine just how much damage has been done to us by all the crap they have come up with to improve profits without any consideration about long term physio effects.
When Mother Nature sends us a message that we are not living harmoniously with her, there is always some technology that comes along to try to outsmart her, so humans can gain the upper hand and bend Mother Nature to our will. This episode will surely end the same way all the other efforts to outwit Nature did, and many will suffer. Living in synch with nature appears to be less profitable. It is, until it kills you, and your neighbors, and your family.
In western PA where I live, crops are rotated year to year. I'm not aware of any millionaire farmers around here. Corporate super farms ain't 'round here. When a food source, like potatoes for the mentioned beetle, is consistently available and fertilized, what else should we expect, right?
It's nature's way, and of course, the human way to try to push nature out of the way.
It never worked and it never will. Greed and stupidity. The Idaho potato economy is not sustainable in its current guise. How it needs to change I can't say. Perhaps some potatoes needs to be replaced by other crops. Whatever it is, the change must adapt to nature's call, not try to over ride it. Such is my humble opinion.
Yeah, decades of doing things a certain way can't be sustained if it takes poisons and experimental materials to preserve it. The beetles aren't the problem IMO. They are just doing what nature does. Hopefully we can come up with alternatives to poison treatments of our food supply.
Mark, yes - in spite of all experience and evidence, humans still desperately want to control Nature - aka life/death. Bottom line: fear of death.
Did we learn nothing when in 1986 we removed liability from Big Pharmaceutical Corporations? These open ended blanket immunities are dangerous. Lobbyists and money! The building trades are on the other end of the spectrum. The building codes have gotten so complicated the people that write them don’t understand what they mean so they can’t be implemented. Imagine giving a building contractor blanket immunity from all liability-insane right? Giving Big Chemical Corporations blanket immunity is the definition of insanity especially with what we’ve been through with vaccines.
Being that my husband was in the lumber and building business, I heard plenty. Some regulations are needed (for the shysters) but the feel of power is just too much for some to resist and here we are. Over and over again. Humans are dense and stubborn to our undoing.
“….Mike Simpson’s rider is completely contrary to the principles of the Make America Great Again movement.”
Did you mean to say “….contrary to the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement”? The principles are two sides of the same coin, so it is easy to see why one could be flipped for the other in discourse. 😉
Thanks, Dr. Malone, for alerting us to this important information.
thanks for the catch. Fixed.
For as long as these "rider" inclusions have been used to slip in other agendas, who is watching the hen house besides you? If this was such a good idea it wouldn't need to be hidden as so many others are. What an underhanded approach to so many bills. These people who are intent on saving the farmer are actually destroying the land, insects and finally the people. Big ag. is not much different than any of the other schemes used to frighten the masses. This is just a bigger and better approach to toxify and make it sound like they really care. URGH! I'm calling now.
I live in Central Wisconsin. Just past the street one house away from mine is a 640 acre field that grows a lot of Potatoes., corn, and soy beans. All summer long there are crop duster plane spraying that field. in the fall they spray a defoliate on the potatoes to make harvesting easier and right sized potatoes. Ditto the Soy Beans. I believe Glyphosate is the main chemical sprayed.
I had already contacted my Representative, Congressman Derrick Van Orden, who is on the Agriculture Committee during the 1st round of hearing about the plan to exempt these pesticide companies from liability. Looks like it needs to be done again given this RNA technology. Anyone else on this comment section that lives in Wisconsin may wan to do the same.
When a biological approach can reduce the beetle population by 75% without the harmful side effects and unintended consequences, gee, maybe BigChem needs to be cut out of the loop. Too many congressmen dancing to the big money pipers. Hello, Mike Simpson.
Is it possible to interfere with the fertility of potato bugs? It seems I read somewhere that that has been done with mosquitoes. We seem to have figured out how to inhibit human fertility🫤. We must not allow amendment 453 to remain!
Thank you for covering this. I believe I've grasped the particulars of the potato threat and these folks answer.
I am a bit lost as to whether these insects are a major threat to all US potato growers or just primarily Idaho growers. Im further having problems with the implication that this rna solution would need to be evaluated against 5.5 m. insect species. The issue is, to me, more the impact on the treated potato consumers.
Perhaps the better answer in this instance is to decline liability protections as a general practice. They shouldn't have been/be available for vaccine purposes or pesticides.
While the Government is rethinking a strategy for sharing the burden of injuries from toxicities of vaccines, perhaps they need to further consider their role in supporting crop protection strategies. ie Where studies demonstrate toxicies of a proposed pesticide application and such toxicity levels are deemed acceptable for humans - should this prove in error - consider some shared level of support for the injuries.
I am against our goverment authorizing a blanket liability protection I'll continue to reflect on a way to address this to my elected officials. Sorry - my mind is shorting out at the moment.
Don’t recall reading (and there’s no search function thru text), but has Bt (Bacillus thuringienisis?) stopped working? Yes, it needs to be reapplied after rain/heavy irrigation - my recollection is that it has a similar mechanism.
I used the biological control method in my potato patch: throughout the season I would patrol the hills, fluff the leaves to inspect the undersides of leaves and whenever I saw a "raft" of orange eggs I would smear it — simple, labor intensive (yes), effective - don’t remember last time I saw an adult potato beetle nor damage to my plants. Same thing works for asparagus beetles ‘cept your catching/squishing the adult bugs (the crunch is satisfying, if not a little sadistic).
⁉️💡: how’bout we implement a catch and release program for all the non-violent / criminal invaders - catch&release into our agricultural fields, feed&house, they no like working they can go home. It’s a win-win-win scenario: we’re not using chems or biologicals on our food or at least its use is minimized, the invaders have the possibility of a green card for good behavior and their offspring a few generations out can apply for citizenship and, most importantly, the crying dems get their cheap food AND can satisfy that master-slave gene they so willingly wish to express
Clever lawyers in DC working on behalf of special interests just keep degrading the health of future generations. The last 5 years is a testimony to their ability to manipulate the truth to move the deep state agenda forward and gas lite the Congressman! More to come!
Perhaps all clinical trials should be done on clever lawyers. That may make them decide immunity from liability is not such a good thing afterall.
It is actually IMPOSSIBLE to pass valid laws and/or acts that permit the Intentional harm and/or murder of another/other's, outside of the appropriate criminal court process OR legitimate justified military process~! The NAZI's of WWII passed many laws that were "legal" but COMPLETELY unlawful, and that didn't go well for many of them in the long run. So, this garbage of exempting anyone or any company or agency from criminal and/or civil prosecution is just a sick game of the criminals of humanity who are very likely already in line for the criminal Tribunal process today~! Nice try, but there is absolutely no way that you criminals will escape justice one way or another now, and you can't say that you were not warned well ahead of time... I would like to personally thank ALL of those who have signed there own "death warrants" by partaking in these efforts to get immunity for your many crimes against humanity and Treason~! HA~! That is indeed VERY accommodating of you, because by virtue of these very efforts to supposedly "legalize" your atrocities, you have in fact functionally admitted that they always were crimes to begin with and that makes "our" jobs much easier! Thak you, thank you very much~! Ha Ha Ha!!! Oh, and EVERYONE who supports these efforts to legalize these most atrocious attacks upon humanity in the historic record, will also be subject to criminal and/or civil prosecutions as accomplices before and/or during and/or after the fact~! Have a nice day~!
Sincerely, Mike
Another option is Bonide's Colorado Potato Beetle Beater. The active ingredient is .05% Spinosad, a mixture of Spinosyn A and Spinosyn D produced by the fermentation of the soil bacterium Saccharopolyspora spinosa. Many products containing spinosad are approved for use in organic farming. Manufacturers recommend using it in the evening when bees and other beneficial insects are less active.
I don't grow potatoes, but the beetles were munching on the leaves of my ashwagandha plant, which is in the nightshade family. I bought the Bonide product and set the unopened container next to the plant, intending to use it the next day. Went back the next day and no sign of the beetles. Think what you want. I never had to use it and the beetles have not returned.
I'll go with some kind of psychic communication between you and the beetles that got reinforced by the physical container. Looks like they got the message. You grow ashwagandha? Cool. I wonder if it grows in central/southern Minnesota.
Lol, I don't discount that they got the message. Ashwagandha will grow as an annual in any temperate zone. Looks like you're Zone 6 on the Minnesota zone map. I'm in 6b in New Hampshire. I actually grow it as a specimen plant; I bring it inside in the winter in a large pot instead of harvesting the roots. I've kept some for up to three years, then they sort of peter out. In India the 2nd year roots are used. I find it a lot easier to just buy a good quality supplement - Natural Factors, Oregon's Wild Harvest and Organic India are some in capsule form. My dog gets the powdered root for its calming effect.
You need a sample letter to Conressional Reps and Senators.
Date
Address
Dear Rep [last name],
I am concerned about agricultural methods, farmer health, consumer food health, and the Section 453 pesticide liability shield in the Department of the Interior appropriations bill.
The liability shield states:
15 PESTICIDES
16 SEC. 453. None of the funds made available by this
17 or any other Act may be used to issue or adopt any guid
18 ance or any policy, take any regulatory action, or approve
19 any labeling or change to such labeling that is inconsistent
20 with or in any respect different from the conclusion of—
21 (a) a human health assessment performed pursuant
22 to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
23 (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.); or
24 (b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide.
Small Off-Road Engine Waiver Sec 454. etc etc etc
The term pesticides includes both existing and future pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides. One well-kown existing example is Roundup (glyphosate), as manufactured and sold by Monsanto/Bayer, where environmentalists cite that potential harms to farmers and gardeners seem to exist and must be investigated further, with revised warning labels produced and attached, as proven.
Moreover, a future example is Ledprona, an ingredient in Calantha, a double-stranded RNA biopesticide, which attacks the Colorado potato beetle, by attacking a gene that produces a protein vital to beetle eating and survival.
Ledprona "has demonstrated efficacy comparable to conventional insecticides like spinosad in greenhouse and field trials. Approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December 2023 for a three-year period, ledprona is classified by the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) under Group 35 (RNAi-mediated targeted suppressors), representing a novel mode of action.
"The manufacturer claims that the high specificity minimizes harm to non-target organisms, such as pollinators, and that it degrades quickly in the environment, supporting biodiversity and sustainable pest management. Ledprona is applied as a foliar spray, compatible with standard potato farming practices, and is part of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies to combat insecticide resistance, particularly in regions like Idaho, where the beetle is a significant threat.
"However, some environmental groups, like the Pollinator Stewardship Council, have raised concerns about potential unintended ecological impacts, citing insufficient research on non-target species.” Reference: "RNA as a Pesticide and Indemnification,” Robert W. Malone MD, MS, newsletter dated Aug 13, 2025, using Grok AI.
Because it is so new, Ledprona has not been tested to learn its effects on non-target insects and arachnids, like honeybees, spiders, ladybugs, etc. Also its effects on snails, snakes, birds, bats, and so forth.
Because it is so new, Ledprona has not been tested to learn its effects on the people eating potatoes or other vegetables and fruits on which it was sprayed. The Section 453 rider and liability shield precludes a person who is harmed from collecting a legal health and injury damages award. It even prevents a revised warning label from being attached to the ledprona bottle/package.
Please work with other Congresspeople interested in farming and human health to remove Section 453, the pesticide liability shield, from the Dept of the Interior Appropriations bill. [ED NOTE: NAME another Congressman with whom they might work? Or skip.]
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
voter name
voter address & contact email, phone