December 2019

This news is very concerning. I thought we were beginning to help people understand the fundamental necessity of bees and the dangers of pesticides. http://www.economicvoice.com/bee-harming-pesticides-to-be-used-again/

This is wonderful news http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/business/energy-environment/big-win-for-beekeepers-as-court-voids-insecticide.html?_r=0

Friends of Earth have a petition to help the Bee Cause. I have signed it. Perhaps you would like to as well? This photograph is quite extraordinary. Thousands of bees delayed a Pittsburgh Delta flight. Pittsburgh is the home-base of the giant chemical company, Bayer. Another Help the Bee petition if you feel inclined to…

A MESSAGE FROM GREENPEACE Big news: Greenpeace investigators have discovered unpublished pesticide-company studies showing that their controversial ‘neonic’ pesticides can seriously harm bees.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…

Another little blessing from the honey bee http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2013/12/better-berry-thanks-bees There is a Facebook page worth looking at called Beyond Pesticides https://www.facebook.com/beyondpesticides One of its posts is the following which those of you in the States who are concerned for your bees might want to sign. In Europe, we have begun our two-year trial ban on Neonicotinoids.

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