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UK Parlia. Chair: "...serious questions...EU pesticides regulation...

Submitted by Kevin Hansen on December 15, 2012 - 16:09

Great article in the Guardian by Damian Carrington:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/12/mps-insecticide-regula...

Quoted by Joan Walley MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC).

"European regulators seem to have turned a blind eye to data on the danger that one of the world's biggest selling pesticides could pose to bees and other pollinators," said Joan Walley MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC). "Evidence seen by the committee raises serious questions about the integrity, transparency and effectiveness of EU pesticides regulation. Data available in the regulators' own assessment report shows it could be 10 times more persistent in soils than the European safety limit."

Quoted by Prof Dave Goulson, an ecologist at the University of Stirling

Major Study: Multiple Routes of Pesticide Exposure for Honeybees Living Near Agricultural Fields

Submitted by Kevin Hansen on January 14, 2012 - 13:13

A major new study from Purdue University researchers highlights that honeybees face a long list of pesticide dangers near agriculture. Multiple toxic agents combined, via several simultaneous routes of exposure mean bees are in peril from many sources.

The complete article is open-access from PLos ONE, attached above (thanks PLos ONE and the authors for making this important article OPEN ACCESS!!!).

Toxic food.

I'm concerned that our food would be toxic in multiple ways simultaneously.

Bayer Corp. Annual Meeting: German Beekeepers Protest Pesticides

Submitted by Pierre Terre on April 30, 2011 - 12:16

This image was sent by German beekeepers of their protest outside the Bayer Corporation annual meeting April 29, 2011:

Bayer Corp. meeting protest in Cologne, Germany by beekeepers

Beekeepers in Germany are deeply concerned that Bayer's pesticides, especially the nicotine-based systemic pesticides (that render the entire plant, stem, leaves, roots, nectar and pollen toxic) are a significant threat to honey bees. Those pesticides are widespread as seed-coatings on most corn sold worldwide through Bayer's partnership with Monsanto. These seeds are almost always both Genetically Modified (GMO) and coated with a systemic nicotine pesticide - and sometimes also a fungicide or  other pesticide.

These seeds thus become deeply toxic, on many levels.

April 29th 2011 - German Beekeepers Demonstrate Against Systemic Pesticides in Cologne

Submitted by Pierre Terre on April 23, 2011 - 15:03

Manfred Hederer, President of DBIB, the German Professional Beekeeping Association, released this announcement this week. The situation for honey bees in Germany is very bad, and worsening. 

If interested, please email info@berufsimker.de for more information.

Location: 
Cologne, NW
Germany
50° 56' 26.394" N, 6° 57' 35.6832" E
See map: Google Maps

Location

Cologne, NW
Germany
50° 56' 26.394" N, 6° 57' 35.6832" E
See map: Google Maps

Causes of Bee Losses from CCD in Germany

Submitted by Pierre Terre on March 3, 2010 - 12:35

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.

Location

Montpellier Montpellier
France
43° 36' 29.4336" N, 3° 52' 46.0056" E
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