The EPA Finally Admitted 20 Years Too Late

[wendy]

The EPA Finally Admitted That the World’s Most Popular Pesticide Kills Bees—20 Years Too Late

—By Tom Philpott
| Thu Jan. 7, 2016 2:08 PM EST
Bees are dying in record numbers—and now the government admits that an extremely common pesticide is at least partially to blame.

For more than a decade, the Environmental Protection Agency has been under pressure from environmentalists and beekeepers to reconsider its approval of a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, based on a mounting body of research suggesting they harm bees and other pollinators at tiny doses. In a report released Wednesday, the EPA basically conceded the case.

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott ... toxic-bees

[maureenho]

We would not survive without bees to pollinate, I do my bit by not using any pesticides in my garden.

[annie]

I hope the numbers can recover, it would be disastrous without them