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Nicotine Bees - Trailer

Jul 09 2010
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Buy Nicotine Bees on DVD: http://www.amazon.com/Nicotine-Bees-Kevin-Hansen/dp/B002R8AU4Y

Posted by Kevin Hansen |

Vandana Shiva: To Feed Ourselves, First Feed Other Species - #Commons

Jul 03 2010
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Dr. Vandana Shiva, a physicist and powerful leader in the worldwide, growing movement towards organic food, describes her vision for the diverse, healthy ecosystems that once sustained, can provide ample food for humanity. Part of her experience is the  nearly 5,000 years of agriculture in India - one of the longest, and perhaps an example for other places seeking a sustainable future.

In a stunning critique, she describes her research demonstrating that organic, diverse food-ecosystems provide far more food, better quality food, better ecosystems/habitat, and more profitability for organic farmers. From the interview:

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Imidacloprid Residues Found in 69% of Bees

Submitted by Pierre Terre on May 20, 2010 - 23:32

A Survey of Pesticide Residues in Pollen Loads Collected by Honey Bees in France

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Location: 
Sophia-Antipolis
France
43° 37' 21.2052" N, 7° 2' 28.122" E

Location

Sophia-Antipolis
France
43° 37' 21.2052" N, 7° 2' 28.122" E

Imidacloprid contaminates the pollen of seed-coated crops : A high risk for bees

Submitted by Pierre Terre on May 20, 2010 - 23:17

Conclusions for Imidacloprid (Gaucho) :

  • A long persistence / soils (t1⁄2 = 9 months)
  • An uptake in flowers (mean level at 7 ng/g)
  • Mean level at 2-3 ng/g in pollen
  • Subletal effects at 2-4 ng/g (4 days)
  • Chronic mortality from 0.1 ng/g (10 days)
  • Main metabolites as much toxic as imidacloprid for bees
  • High risk for the beehives (PEC/PNEC >> 1)
  • Synergies with other pesticides, pathogens and parasites
  • Generalization of these results to nicotinoids and pyrazoles (clothianidin, thiamethoxam, fipronil...)
Location: 
Montpelier
France
44° 15' 36.2124" N, 72° 34' 31.3932" W

Location

Montpelier
France
44° 15' 36.2124" N, 72° 34' 31.3932" W

Understanding the Science: the Impact of Imidacloprid on Bees

Imidacloprid is the largest-selling pesticide on earth. It has been widely implicated as an important cause in honeybee death worldwide, and the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) problem. The following describes some of the important toxic characteristics of imidacloprid.

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Italy keeps ban on neonicotinoid seed coating to save bees

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 3, 2010 - 15:23

YourIs.com, Italy keeps ban on neonicotinoid seed coating to save bees

The Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of pesticides containing clothianidin, thiametoxam and imidacloprid for the coating of any plant seeds (May '09).

Tens of thousands of them don’t even manage to get back to their apiary. Disoriented, they lose the way home and die. Others just drop dead after sucking the tiniest amount of dew exuded by maize leaves if the plants have been absorbing neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides that Italy has temporarily banned as seed coating in September last year for their “possible connection to the colony collapse of bees”.

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