ecowatch.org

Commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed an urgent legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 21 to suspend further use of a pesticide the agency knows poses harm to honey bees, and adopt safeguards to ensure similar future pesticides aren’t approved by the agency. The legal petition is supported by more than one million citizen petitions also submitted that were collected from people across the country calling out one pesticide in particular‚ clothianidin—for its harmful impacts on honey bees.

More than One Million Urge EPA to Protect Bees from ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’

Poland’s Monsanto action lays 1000s of dead bees on Govt steps

On March 15, over 1,500 beekeepers and their allies marched thru the streets of Warsaw, depositing thousands of dead bees on the steps of the Ministry of Agriculture, in protest of genetically modified foods and their requisite pesticides which are killing bees, moths and other agriculturally-beneficial insects around the globe.

Poland’s Monsanto action lays 1000s of dead bees on Govt steps

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A new study draws a strong link between colony collapse disorder and an insecticide used on corn.

At Last, an Answer to the Honey Bee Die-Offs?

The Rural Blog

A new study indicates that the wave of colony collapse disorder, or the mass die-off of honey bees, is linked to the coating of seed corn with some of the world’s most widely used insecticides.

Research links bee colony collapse disorder to insecticides that coat seed corn

The Province

Honeybee deaths have been increasing in the past decade. This is alarming because bees play a vital role in the entire food chain and damaging this link could have dire consequences.

Honeybee Deaths

Colony collapse disorder, or the mass die-off of honeybees, has stumped researchers up to now. This new research may provide information that could lead to …

Corn Insecticides Killing Honeybees, Cause Of Colony Collapse Disorder