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09/18/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Pesticides that kill bees, birds and butterflies found to be ineffective at increasing crop yields

Neonicotinoid pesticides are destroying wildlife around the world, but proponents claim that they are useful for increasing agricultural production. Of course, losing the planet’s most important pollinators is going to have an even bigger effect on the food supply and human life in the long run, and now there’s another very convincing argument against neonicotinoid […]

09/11/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Hummingbirds and bumble bees are being exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides at alarming rates

It’s quite simple: About 87 percent of all flowering plants are pollinated by animals, and this includes 70 percent of the planet’s most produced food crops. Bees alone are responsible for pollinating one in every three bites of food we eat. Without pollinators like bees, birds and bats, we would be faced with an overwhelming […]

03/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Politicians join with conservation groups in calling on the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides until a full scientific review is conducted

State politicians and conservation groups urged the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to hold off approval of bee-killing neonics in order to conduct a full scientific review of the pesticides involved, reported an EcoWatch article. Congressmen Earl Blumenauer and Jim McGovern recently reintroduced the Saving America’s Pollinators Act, a bill that blocks new neonicotinoid insecticides while the EPA is […]

09/14/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

New study confirms Bayer’s neonic pesticides are destroying honeybee pollinators… yet the EPA does nothing

A new study affirmed that neonicotinoid pesticides — also known as “neonics” which are chemically related to nicotine — harm both honey bees and wild bees, as reported by BBC. Researchers found that the chemical exposure decreased the survival of honey bee hives during winter, while bumblebees and solitary bees produced fewer queens. The study, […]

07/18/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Humanity’s chemical SUICIDE confirmed: Pesticides sprayed on food crops are wiping out food pollinators, leading toward a global food collapse

The next time you sit down to a delicious meal, consider the fact that bees are responsible for every third bite you eat. Honey bees take care of about 80 percent of all pollination, with just one bee colony pollinating upwards of 300 million flowers in a single day. In fact, 70 percent of the world’s […]

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