Pierre Terre

Italy keeps ban on neonicotinoid seed coating to save bees From YourIs.com The Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of pesticides containing clothianidin, thiametoxam and imidacloprid for the coating of any plant seeds (May '09).

Translated from the German, this document provides the reasoning behind the 2008 suspension of nicotine-based insecticides/pesticides in Germany, based on the severe honey bee losses in southwest Germany that year. Seed treatments were blamed for thoses incidents, including the losses reported in the film Nicotine Bees by German beekeepers Walter Haefeker and Karl-Rainer Koch.

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Dr. Hedwig Riebe of the German Professional Beekeepers Association presents the important new research on the exposure routes of honey bees to nicotine insecticides - especially compelling evidence that guttation water secreted naturally by plants that bees drink, contains high concentrations of nicotine pesticides.  

Dr. Neil Carman of The Sierra Club presents compelling evidence that nicotine-based insecticides (neonicotinyls or neonicotinoids) are the prime-mover causal agent of the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) phenomenon in honebee die-offs. Presented at the the American Honey Producers Association (AHPA) 2010 meeting in Sacramento, California.

Vice-President of the European Professional Beekeepers Association (EPBA) Walter Haefeker presents compelling evidence of nicotinoid/nicotine pesticide links to huge honeybee colony losses in Germany. Download attached PDF file for complete presentation.

Natural News writer Peter Finch reviewed Nicotine Bees on NaturalNews.com, in a posting of February 12th, 2010. About the author Peter Finch is a certified-organic grower of premium produce and herbs, that he sells at seasonal farmers markets and to restaurants, natural food stores. Peter's farm perches high in the rolling hills of Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, where the glacial till provides mineral-rich soils.

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I'll be supporting my daughter's medical team, probably near Port-au-Prince.

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PASA, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture will screen the film on Friday, February 5th 2010 in State College, PA. To see the film, register at: Conference Registration link.

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