neonics

What’s Killing All the Bees?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, bee, bees, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, honey, honeybee, insecticides, Jeff Merkley, neonics, organic, pesticides, pollen, pollinate, pollination, pollinator

Activists would like the U.S. government to ban a class of insecticides called neonics that they blame for wiping out the bees that pollinate a majority of our food crops.

Wild & Wooly

The Coming Bee-Pocalypse? Collateral Damage of Mosquito Spraying

Joe Alton bee, beekeeper, bees, neonic, neonicotinoid, neonics, pesticide

Our bees are an important natural resource, not just for beekeepers, but for farmers and for all Americans. Big agriculture’s chemical branch is a powerful political force, but if an entire continent like Europe can outlaw neonics, why can’t we?