microrobert
07-29-2013, 07:59 AM
Colony Collapse Disorder: It Won't Be Solved With The Banning Of A Single Pesticide
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Late last month 25,000 bumblebees (http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/25000-dead-bees-in-target-parking-lot-130621.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1) fell out of the linden trees planted around a Target parking lot in Wilsonville, Oregon, all dead. Pesticides were immediately blamed. Despite printed warnings on neonicotinoid-type bug killers stating that they should not be sprayed when bees are present, the flowering lindens were doused with Safari Insecticide, causing what The Xerces Society calls the largest mass death of bumblebees ever recorded in the United States.
Just over a month before the bees died in Oregon, the European Union passed a continent-wide ban on neonicotinoids—legislation that environmental groups praised as a significant move to curb Colony Collapse Disorder (http://www.takepart.com/article/2010/08/06/colony-collapse-disorder-new-study-says-pesticides-are-killing-honeybees), the somewhat misleadingly distinct name given to the little-understood deaths of some 10 million hives’ worth of bees in the last six years. Oregon issued a temporary ban on the pesticides too, but nothing as broad as the European law is being considered nationally—and that may not be such a bad thing, because a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070182#pone-0070182-t001) suggests that CCD is by no means a one-chemical problem.
Colony Collapse Disorder: It Won't Be Solved With The Banning Of A Single Pesticide (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/colony-collapse-disorder_n_3660782.html)
http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bees.jpg
Late last month 25,000 bumblebees (http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/25000-dead-bees-in-target-parking-lot-130621.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1) fell out of the linden trees planted around a Target parking lot in Wilsonville, Oregon, all dead. Pesticides were immediately blamed. Despite printed warnings on neonicotinoid-type bug killers stating that they should not be sprayed when bees are present, the flowering lindens were doused with Safari Insecticide, causing what The Xerces Society calls the largest mass death of bumblebees ever recorded in the United States.
Just over a month before the bees died in Oregon, the European Union passed a continent-wide ban on neonicotinoids—legislation that environmental groups praised as a significant move to curb Colony Collapse Disorder (http://www.takepart.com/article/2010/08/06/colony-collapse-disorder-new-study-says-pesticides-are-killing-honeybees), the somewhat misleadingly distinct name given to the little-understood deaths of some 10 million hives’ worth of bees in the last six years. Oregon issued a temporary ban on the pesticides too, but nothing as broad as the European law is being considered nationally—and that may not be such a bad thing, because a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070182#pone-0070182-t001) suggests that CCD is by no means a one-chemical problem.
Colony Collapse Disorder: It Won't Be Solved With The Banning Of A Single Pesticide (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/colony-collapse-disorder_n_3660782.html)