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BBKA pesticide endorsement
A couple of articles in today’s Independent discuss the British Beekeepers Association’s shameless endorsement of bee-killing pesticides. It’s due to be debated this weekend at their conference at...
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Exclusive: Bees facing a poisoned spring New kind of pesticide, widely used in UK, may be helping to kill off the world’s honeybees By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor A new generation of...
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Neonicotinoids and dying bees
The Independent has an article today about concern that Neonicatinoid pesticides are damaging the bee population. It says that Prof. Robert Watson, chief scientific advisor at the Department for...
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More on bees and Neonicotinoid pesticides
The Independent has a further article on bees and Neonicatinoid pesticides. I’ve looked for those “two independent studies carried out in the past two years” showing that “bees treated with...
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Sub-lethal effects of pesticides on honeybees
Black bees I am uncertain about the claim to be the first research “to demonstrate the sub-lethal effects of pesticide residue exposure on honey bees” – I believe that there may be a growing body of...
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Pesticides kill bees
Neonicotinoid pesticides are shown to poison bees. While this study was concerned with bumblebees it is likely that the findings are also relevant to honeybees and similar insects. The point about...
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UK & bee-killing pesticides
Black bees My assessment of the current state of UK bees follows MPs call for precautionary ban on pesticides linked to bee decline Pressure on the government to impose a “precautionary moratorium” on...
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DDT2 George Monbiot on Neonicatinoid poisons
Black bees George Monbiot has a very good article on Neonicatinoid poisoning being the nu DDT, our environment, government support support for such poisoning using discredited, flawed studies, etc....
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