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New Publication on Preventing Pesticide Poisonings in Bees
In the wake of the pesticide poisoning of 50,000 bumblebees, The Pacific Northwest Extension Service has just published a revised edition of a pamphlet with information on protecting honeybees and wild...
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Neonics and Bees — Political Inaction Persists Despite Mounting Evidence
Over the course of the last year, the issue of bees and the neonicotinoid pesticides has finally begun to appear in the popular press in this country. A campaign by Friends of the Earth in the UK...
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More Data to Implicate Fungicides in Colony Collapse
A study by University of Maryland and US Department of Agriculture researchers just published in PLOS ONE indicates that fungicides in pollen weaken the ability of honeybees to withstand nosema–thus...
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Thank you, Jerry’s!
Jerry’s Home Improvement Center in Eugene responded to concerns of beekeepers regarding the sale of neonicotinoid insecticides by examining the data and taking action– placing products containing these...
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Good News for Oregon’s Bees and More to Do
This from John Jordan, Communication Director for Beyond Toxics: Eugene’s City Council Wednesday night voted to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on city property. Council Resolution 5101 also...
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Tell EPA: Step Up and Protect Bees
Send a message to the Environmental Protection Agency through this Pesticide Action Network campaign to get EPA administrator Gina McCarthy to ban “neonics” now rather than waiting until 2018, which is...
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Pollinator Peril – Research Highlights
Two years ago I made poster for our educational bee event called Keeping our Bees Alive – The Challenges. At that time we knew that the neonicotinoid insecticides were likely a big problem, but we had...
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Please Report Dead Bees
In the wake of two recent bumblebee die offs in Eugene and Portland resulting from pesticide poisoning, it is especially important to report suspected pesticide poisonings to the Oregon Department of...
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It’s not just the bees, it’s the birds
Research out of the Netherlands, to be published tomorrow (7.10.2014) in the prestigious journal Nature, demonstrates a strong correlation between the decline of insect-eating bird species and...
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Blog post gets Published!
What started out as a bit of curiosity about the time-dependent toxicity of insecticides led to a blog piece I did a little over a year ago titled Time-dependent Toxicity of Imidacloprid in Bees and...
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