bee deaths
03/30/2017
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By Vicki Batts
Is Monsanto responsible for a 90 percent drop in the bumblebee population?
The rusty patched bumblebee was, at one time, an ordinary bee with a substantial population across the US. But the once-common bee has fallen prey to human action, and the number of these little pollinators has declined drastically. Over the last two decades, the rusty patched bumblebee population has declined by a staggering 90 percent, […]
01/14/2017
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By Vicki Batts
Court allows seeds to continue to be sprayed with bee-toxic pesticides
At the end of November, a judge from the Northern District of California delivered a crushing blow to our nation’s beekeepers, and effectively approved of the EPA policies that will allow seeds to be coated with bee-toxic pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, or neonics for short. These pesticides, which can persist in soil and water with […]
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