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EU bans pesticides for two years to save Bees from extinction (Original Post) lovuian Apr 2013 OP
The UK actually was resisting the ban. Buzz Clik Apr 2013 #1
yep but they caved didn't they two thirds of their honey population died lovuian Apr 2013 #5
This is a start MFM008 Apr 2013 #2
I went to buy some honey amuse bouche Apr 2013 #3
yep the news is folks is the Bee is going extinct lovuian Apr 2013 #6
Wikipedia has a great article on this. JDPriestly Apr 2013 #4
K&R! DeSwiss Apr 2013 #7
Yes. They are causing mass murders of species and people. glinda Apr 2013 #10
wonderful news mettamega Apr 2013 #8
And what about us? marions ghost Apr 2013 #9
I agree how can the scientific findings be ignored lovuian Apr 2013 #11

lovuian

(19,362 posts)
5. yep but they caved didn't they two thirds of their honey population died
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 03:06 PM
Apr 2013

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)
2. This is a start
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 02:51 PM
Apr 2013

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)
3. I went to buy some honey
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 02:54 PM
Apr 2013

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)
6. yep the news is folks is the Bee is going extinct
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 03:09 PM
Apr 2013

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)
4. Wikipedia has a great article on this.
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 03:02 PM
Apr 2013

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

lovuian

(19,362 posts)
11. I agree how can the scientific findings be ignored
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 07:24 PM
Apr 2013

by USA

It puts more pressure on US to ban the pesticides especially when the bees population plummet

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