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Pesticide-focused Save America’s Pollinators Act overlooks primary threats to bees and other pollinators
Amid the continuing decline of pollinators worldwide, U.S. lawmakers recently revived a perennially struggling bill that aims to save these ...
Canada’s neonicotinoid insecticide rules haven’t hit farmers, and tighter regulations coming?
Health Canada’s April decisions on three neonicotinoid insecticides won’t change much for growers this year — but it also won’t ...
United Nations: Intensive agriculture driving bee declines, threatening global food security
Declining bee populations pose threat to global food security and nutrition FAO urges countries to step up efforts to protect ...
Vermont Senate approves bill restricting neonicotinoid insecticide use, ‘small step’ towards outright ban
Senators gave preliminary approval .... to a bill that would restrict the use of a class of pesticides considered to ...
Podcast: ‘Are we all going to die?’ Entomologist breaks down the ‘bee-pocalypse’ that ‘threatens the global food supply’
Bees are important crop pollinators and reduced bee numbers have been described by farmers overseas as a bee crisis. Global ...
Neonicotinoid insecticides threaten birds? Friends of the Earth botches the science, entomologist says
Usually the Friends of the Earth emails are about some environmental cause that makes me chuckle. They’re always on the ...
Viewpoint: Ironically named ‘Saving America’s Pollinators Act’ would harm bees, hinder sustainable farming
Some old ideas for bad laws are endlessly recycled. Take the case of the Saving America’s Pollinators Act, a nearly six-year-old ...
Fresh from European ban victory, anti-chemical activists turn their sights on Canada, targeting neonicotinoid pesticides as a ‘bee killer’
There is an inevitable consequence when technically inexpert politicians and politically-influenced bureaucrats allow public policy to be driven by dogmatic ...
Some wild bee populations declining, but ‘scarce data’ hamper impact and research efforts
More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on ...
New model uncovers possible mechanism behind Varroa mite’s assault on honey bees
The association between the deformed wing virus and the parasitic mite Varroa destructor has been identified as a major cause of worldwide ...
EU neonicotinoid insecticide ban spurs farmers to abandon canola crops, important resource for bees
When neonicotinoid seed treatments were first banned in flowering crops, control of cabbage stem flea beetle in oilseed rape [OSR] ...
Canada codifies new neonicotinoid insecticide rules, allows key agricultural use to continue
Health Canada will restrict some uses of neonicotinoid pesticides because of their impact on honeybees and other pollinators, but the ...
30,000 food products with Non-GMO Project label may be “false or misleading,” FDA guidance document says
The Non-GMO label may soon see its ubiquitous butterfly wings trimmed ...
Podcast: What would have happened if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter?
Where would we be now if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter? ...
Viewpoint: Politico veers again into pseudoscience and politics with another misleading glyphosate infographic
Once again, a website known for its political coverage proves itself unable to report on science-related issues ...
Car sickness? How transportation harms honey bees, and what we can do about it
Bees have received a lot of attention recently, and for good reason. They face challenges from parasites and pathogens while ...
Farm groups challenge petition for tighter EPA insecticide rules, saying restrictions could hamper sound conservation
Nearly 100 organizations recently submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency encouraging the agency to reject a petition related to seeds treated with ...
Everything you should know about colony collapse disorder and ‘disappearing’ bee populations
During the winter of 2006-2007, beekeepers around the country began reporting unusually high losses of their hives. Between 30 percent ...
Neonicotinoid insecticide ban fuels ‘big rise’ in cabbage stem flea beetle damage to UK oilseed rape crops
Oilseed rape crops across southern England are seeing a big rise in pest damage from cabbage stem flea beetles, with ...
Oregon’s proposed neonicotinoid insecticide restrictions spark debate over necessity of pesticides
Two bills restricting certain pesticides [got hearings on March 26] in the Oregon legislature. Marie Bowers is a fifth generation ...
UK experiencing ‘widespread’ decline of insect pollinators, new study claims
Great Britain is in great trouble....it’s running out of pollinators. The Center for Ecology & Hydrology measured the presence of ...
Neonicotinoid insecticide ban, bad weather could cut Europe’s already slumping sugar beet yields
Farmers in western Europe have begun sugar beet planting, with first indications pointing to a drop in area for the ...
Viewpoint: EU neonicotinoid insecticide restrictions could ‘disrupt global trade flows’
Farmers and the agri-chemical industry are criticizing the European Parliament for seeking to export the EU’s stringent standards on pesticides ...
Do Roundup Ready GMO crops harm Monarch butterflies? Ecologists weigh in as new data comes to light
Monarch butterfly populations have been declining since the 1990s, and several studies have linked this to the proliferation of crops ...
Latest ecological fake news scare: Like the ‘honeybee armageddon’ narrative, pesticide-driven ‘insect-pocalypse’ claim is collapsing
The 'bee-pocalypse' was an exaggerated fiction grounded in genuine concerns. The 'insect-pocalypse' is more of the same ...
Crop biotechnology can aid environmental conservation, African scientists say
Over the years, many plant and animal species have disappeared from Earth, in part due to human degradation of the ...
Podcast: Primer on bees, varroa mites and the ‘beepocalypse’ that never was
This time it’s all about the bees! From the composition of a working hive to the diseases that plague honey ...
Oxford zoologists: Insect decline studies could erode confidence in science if not held to rigorous standards
Global rates of insect decline will be very hard to measure. Conclusions regarding drivers and rates of declines can be ...
