Comment #10

GASMETERGUY — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:11:02 GMT

I keep bees. They are wonderful creatures. I sure hope scientists have discovered the culprit in CCD.

Comment #9

JAP69 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:58:33 GMT

I missed that when I read your posted article.

Comment #8

Tenaj — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:32:33 GMT

https://act.credoaction.com/campaign/efsa_bees/<br

Comment #7

JAP69 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:50:24 GMT

Thanks for the article Tenaj.

Comment #6

JAP69 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:48:10 GMT

Found another article on bee kill. I would contact DC directly. Someone needs to start a white house petition for the EPA to do something about the pesticides killing bees. Even if the petition does not get the full amount of signatures on the white house petition they will take notice of it. _________________ This online petition does not have a lot of signatures but the article content discusses chemical kill in bees. I would contact DC politicians directly or sign the white house pe... [ More ]

Comment #5

emilyg — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:30:16 GMT

Write to everyone in DC.

Comment #4

JAP69 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:55:26 GMT

Whatever is in round up could cause bee kill too. We lose the bees you will have massive hunger. I tried growing a garden 2 or 3 times and the plants will not produce. I have not seen bees in my area since I have been here. The flowers on my plants just dried up and fell off. I gave up on growing a garden.

Comment #3

JAP69 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:39:02 GMT

I thought chemicals was killing bees thru pollen some time ago. Commented about it in a blog entry or comment some time ago. Thought it was the cause of the local concentration of massive bird die offs too. In the food they ate.<br

Comment #2

sully16 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:02:40 GMT

I'm on board, In Michigan we are pushing to save and increase bee population.

Comment #1

Tenaj — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:24:14 GMT

Guns, politicians, and economic policies are not what's going to kill us. Every time I hear a politican and people make the comment "I am thinking of my children and grandchildren," I think of stuff like this. This happens with drugs too. Too bad the scientists don't have a say so on the final decision making for environmental policies.

Original Blog Entry: Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

Tenaj — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:13:50 GMT

A publication of Working Assets

Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

A blockbuster study released last week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has for the first time labeled the pesticide clothianidin as an unacceptable danger to bees.1

Scientists have long thought that clothianidin is at least partially to blame for the alarming rate that bees have been dying off in the U.S. - nearly 30% of our bee population, per year, has been lost to so-called colony collapse since 2006.2

But the EPA has repeatedly ignored scientists' warnings and Americans' urgings to ban its use, citing lack of evidence.

Now, the EFSA study could be a major breakthrough to convince the EPA to take emergency action, and suspend the use of clothianidin to stop the precipitous decline in global honeybee populations.

Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

In addition to finding clothianidin too dangerous to use on plants pollinated by bees, EFSA's study specifically identifies as too flawed to be useful the shoddy studies provided by pesticide manufacturer Bayer as evidence of clothianidin's safety. 3

It was these sham studies that EPA used to first approve clothianidin in 2003, even against the objections of EPA's own scientists.4

The pesticide, which is used to treat seeds like corn and canola, expresses itself through the plants' pollen and nectar -- the honeybee's favorite sources of food. Clothianidin is in a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, which are relatively new, and their use coincides with the rise of colony collapse.

If EPA does not take emergency action now, it won't review clothianidin again until 2018.

Given the rate of colony collapse, and the indispensable role that pollinators play in our food system -- pollinating one-third of our food crops and providing literally billions of dollars in economic benefit -- it would be stunningly irresponsible of EPA to continue allowing the use of this dangerous pesticide for at least another five years.

Sign the petition urging EPA to take immediate action now!

1. Pesticides and Honey Bees: State of the Science, Pesticide Action Network North America

2. Insecticide 'unacceptable' danger to bees, report finds, Guardian, 1/16/13

3. European Agency concludes neonicotinoid pesticides too dangerous for bees, NRDC, 1/16/13

4. Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists' red flags, Grist, 12/10/10

Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

Sign the petition

https://act.credoaction.com/campaign/efsa_bees/

Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

The Petition Reads:

In light of new evidence showing that the pesticide clothianidin poses a significant danger to bees, EPA should take immediate action to suspend its use.

A blockbuster study released last week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has for the first time labeled the pesticide clothianidin as an unacceptable danger to bees.1

Scientists have long thought that clothianidin is at least partially to blame for the alarming rate that bees have been dying off in the U.S. - nearly 30% of our bee population, per year, has been lost to so-called colony collapse since 2006.2

But the EPA has repeatedly ignored scientists' warnings and Americans' urgings to ban its use, citing lack of evidence.

Now, the EFSA study could be a major breakthrough to convince the EPA to take emergency action, and suspend the use of clothianidin to stop the precipitous decline in global honeybee populations.

Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

In addition to finding clothianidin too dangerous to use on plants pollinated by bees, EFSA's study specifically identifies as too flawed to be useful the shoddy studies provided by pesticide manufacturer Bayer as evidence of clothianidin's safety. 3

It was these sham studies that EPA used to first approve clothianidin in 2003, even against the objections of EPA's own scientists.4

The pesticide, which is used to treat seeds like corn and canola, expresses itself through the plants' pollen and nectar -- the honeybee's favorite sources of food. Clothianidin is in a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, which are relatively new, and their use coincides with the rise of colony collapse.

If EPA does not take emergency action now, it won't review clothianidin again until 2018.

Given the rate of colony collapse, and the indispensable role that pollinators play in our food system -- pollinating one-third of our food crops and providing literally billions of dollars in economic benefit -- it would be stunningly irresponsible of EPA to continue allowing the use of this dangerous pesticide for at least another five years.

Sign the petition urging EPA to take immediate action now!

Pesticides and Honey Bees: State of the Science

Insecticide 'unacceptable' danger to bees, report finds

European Agency concludes neonicotinoid pesticides too dangerous for bees

Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists' red flags

1. , Pesticide Action Network North America2. , Guardian, 1/16/133. , NRDC, 1/16/134. , Grist, 12/10/10

Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

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