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You Can Help Save The Bees
Early in December we reported on an EPA document unearthed by Pesticide Action Network North America and Beyond Pesticides that shows the EPA knows full well what is causing Colony Collapse Disorder of bees. The culprit is pesticides known as neonicotinoids including imidacloprid and clothianidin. PANNA is asking anyone concerned about this subject to sign [...]
Continue reading...Bayer: Our Pesticides Won’t Kill Bees Again
Monday, December 20, 2010
Here is a breakdown of the Bayer response to the recent EPA memo concerning colony collapse disorder in bees: http://www.fastcompany.com/1710746/bayer-our-bee-toxic-pesticide-is-actually-safe-for-bees
Continue reading...GRIST: EPA Won’t Restrict Bee-Killing Chemical
Monday, December 13, 2010
Tom Philpott, the senior food and agriculture writer, for Grist.org, did an exceptional job of breaking down the timeline and story behind the chemical that is causing colony collapse disorder in bees: http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-12-10-leaked-documents-show-epa-allowed-bee-toxic-pesticide-/
Continue reading...Scientist: Pesticides ‘First and Foremost’ in Bee Decline
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Reese Halter is a biologist at California Luthern University and author of The Incomparable Honeybee and the Economics of Pollination. Contact him through www.drreese.com. His interview, published today in Australia, reaffirms his belief that synthetic nicotine pesticides used to kill grubs in lawns are the “first and foremost” culprit in colony collapse disorder of bees: [...]
Continue reading...Bee Study Bogus? Most Likely
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Like the proverbial broken record, we’ve been ranting about the pesticide responsible for the bee-killing phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder: http://www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/imidacloprid-what-you-must-know-now/. And like the wobbly counter-puncher who won’t give up, the pesticide industry keeps trotting out other potential reasons for the bees’ demise since 2006. One such story that received loads of national play broke [...]
Continue reading...Press Release: Bee Dangers Worse Than Expected
Monday, August 2, 2010
Here is a Press Release issued today, August 2, 2010 by the Coalition against Bayer Dangers (Germany) Imidacloprid: Long-term risks undervalued Best-selling pesticide worldwide / New study published in Toxicology / Substance linked with bee deaths in various countries / Ban demanded For many years environmental groups and beekeepers´ organizations have been pushing for a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides [...]
Continue reading...Bee Deaths: Two Films Reinforce Same Conclusion
Thursday, July 22, 2010
It’s been almost exactly three years since some impulsive research led me to David Hackenberg. I had just watched an advertisement for grub control for lawns and the punchline stated that “one application lasts 12 months.” Compulsively suspect of chemical pesticides, I cringed when I thought of a substance that would persist in the soil for [...]
Continue reading...‘Nicotine Bees’ Documentary Explains Colony Collapse
Monday, May 17, 2010
It’s been three years since SafeLawns first published its conclusion that Colony Collapse Disorder in bees was linked to a chemical pesticide known as imidacloprid. The deduction, as one beekeeper states in the movie ‘Nicotine Bees,” is so simple “a fifth grader can figure it out.” Of course, the American government still claims not to [...]
Continue reading...French Warn of Consequences of Pesticides to Bees
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
In an ongoing saga that some feel impacts the future of the agriculture industry around the world, French beekeepers warned of the potential impacts of a controversial pesticide. Here’s the story: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-17/french-beekeepers-warn-of-losses-because-of-new-bayer-pesticide.html The French were the first to associate Colony Collapse Disorder of bees with a group of pesticides made from synthetic nicotine. Many [...]
Continue reading...More Evidence Points to Pesticides Killing Bees
Monday, November 9, 2009
This article from San Diego, Ca., provides an interesting analyis: www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2009/11/08/science/865bees110809.prt
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