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Two thirds of the Bee population had died in Britain
they had too do something
Extinction of the honeybee is a real possibility
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22335520
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)lovuian
(19,362 posts)the word that is missed is EXTINCTION
Britain is looking at putting the Honeybee on the endangered species list
and even then they needed the EU's 15 brave nations to vote
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2013/04/201345185120853337.html
MFM008
(19,775 posts)if bees rebound we have a good culprit for the mass die offs. It should be world wide and permenent.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)at the Flea Market this past weekend
The woman who has been selling local honey for years, said the bee keepers have lost so many bees, that they are going out of business and have no honey to sell
This is in Central Fl.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)It should be put on the endangered species list
they have waited too long and Monsanto has been given an exemption from legal crimes from Congress
what are we going to do without the honeybee?
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Available neonicotinoid insecticides include:
Acetamiprid
Clothianidin
Dinotefuran
Imidacloprid
Nitenpyram
Thiacloprid
Thiamethoxam
. . . .
The US EPA has established a 15-year registration review cycle for all pesticides. As all neonicotinoids were registered after 1984, they were not subject to reregistration. The EPA granted a conditional, or temporary, registration to clothianidin in 2003. The same approval was given to thiamethoxam. Imidacloprid was registered in 1994. It was not conditional. The EPA is now re-evaluating the safety of neonicotinoids. According to Scott Black, the EPA has stated that the registration review process will take several years. At the earliest , the new verdict for imidacloprid will be in 2016 and 2017 for clothianidin and thiamethoxam. The registration review docket for imidacloprid opened in December 2008 and the docket for nithiazine opened in March 2009. Stated topics for review include uncertainty in the effects of neonicotinoids on pollinators, including reports of beekill incidents. The EPA states, "To better ensure a 'level playing field' for the neonicotinoid class as a whole, and to best take advantage of new research as it becomes available," the other neonicotinoids (acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam) will begin registration review in 2012.[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid
glinda
(14,807 posts)mettamega
(81 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Oh yeah Americans don't care about this.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)by USA
It puts more pressure on US to ban the pesticides especially when the bees population plummet