April 2015

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…

If you are on Facebook, this is an interesting page to ‘like’ And for those in the US, this poster helps spot the pollinators! The Peace Bee Farm is in Arkansas, United States. Its owner, Richard Underhill, makes some very interesting observations about his bees and the world of the honey bee. Well worth scrolling…

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….

Might be? Some of us have ringing the alarm bell for well over a decade. The time to act is now https://news.vice.com/article/this-pesticide-might-be-killing-off-bees?utm_source=vicenewstwitter

I like this Canadian initiative although I do not accept that Colony Collapse Disorder is the main culprit in the international bee deaths http://pleasebees.com

A MESSAGE FROM GREENPEACE Big news: Greenpeace investigators have discovered unpublished pesticide-company studies showing that their controversial ‘neonic’ pesticides can seriously harm bees. [1]Now more than ever, we need to ban these bee-harming pesticides for good. Can you help? The research was designed to find a ‘safe level’ for the pesticides, and although the companies…