September 2013
Please sign this, if you agree we must uphold the ban http://action.sumofus.org/a/bayer-bees-lawsuit/4/2/?sub=fb
Please sign this, if you agree we must uphold the ban http://action.sumofus.org/a/bayer-bees-lawsuit/4/2/?sub=fb
A year ago, Monsanto purchased the company, BEEOLOGICS. Here is the link to the page on their website http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/the-buzz-on-beologics.aspx I believe this is a very disturbing step and one that we, as a global population, should be monitoring very carefully RNAi-based products are a mechanism meant to block gene expression. RNAi-based products are genetically engineered…
This is very important news http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-bees-neonicotinoids-idUSKCN10R1M5
HM Government petition I, along with many others, including quite a few readers from my Facebook page, signed a petition last year to beg the British government to seriously and in all conscience consider the withdrawal of neonicotinoids pesticides from the market. These chemicals almost certainly damage the nervous systems of bees and other insects….
It seems that slowly, slowly governments are waking up to the dangers of the neonicotinoid pesticides. Let us hope they do not drag their feet for much longer. How many bees have you seen this spring? We have far fewer feeding at the farm. In spite of a tremendous display of cherry blossom we have…
Thank you Michael Sutton for this informative little film about honeybees: "Apis Mellifera: Honey Bee" a high-speed short from Michael N Sutton / @MNS1974 on Vimeo. I have signed this. Perhaps you would like to as well? http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16305 It is good to hear that British urban bees are surviving and should point the way for…
I have been sent this link by beekeeper in Devon, England. It looks like a terrific way to get in touch with bees and beekeeping and to support them. http://www.naturalbeekeepingtrust.org/ for those of you living in or near the Hudson Valley, New York, this looks like a terrific organisation. http://www.ulsterbees.org/Ulster_County_Beekeepers/Welcome.html