Where Are the Bees? EPA Approves New Toxic Pesticide
The Colony Collapse Disorder among bees, an alarming development in the food world, has raised concerns about the future of our food supply. Since 1990, more than 25% of the managed honey bee...
View ArticleScientists Learn More About Bee Deaths: Fungicides Are a Problem
A new study published in PLOS One shows that scientists are learning more about the mass bee die-off around the world. Scientists have been puzzled about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has...
View ArticleCenter for Food Safety Fighting Sulfoxaflor, a Bee Killer
Without bees, many of the foods we regularly eat and enjoy would disappear off the face of the earth because they must be pollinated before they can produce fruit. Honey bees are dying at an alarming...
View ArticleHarvard Study Strengthens Link Between Neonicotinoids and Bee Death
A new study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the Bulletin of Insectology has found that two widely used neonicotinoids (pesticides) appear to “significantly harm honey...
View ArticleHoney Bee Colony Loss Report for Winter 2013/2014
The Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with the USDA and Apiary Inspectors of American have released a preliminary report on their eighth annual national survey of honey bee colony losses....
View ArticlePresident Obama Creates Strategy to Protect Honey Bees
President Obama has created a federal strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators that are crucial to our food supply. In the last few decades, the environment has lost a...
View ArticleSpokane, WA Ends Use of Neonicotinoids
The city council of Spokane, Washington has voted to discontinue the purchase and use of neonicotinoids on city property. Those pesticides are linked to honey bee colony collapse disorder. Pollinators...
View ArticleUSDA Providing $4 Million for Honey Bee Habitat
Honey bees around the world have been dying off at an alarming rate in recent years. Because the insect is so important to America’s food supply, the USDA is giving five midwestern states $4 million to...
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