Urban beekeeping in New Mexico's largest city.
Dear Albuquerque Beekeepers,
A blockbuster study released this week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has for the first time labeled the pesticide clothianidin as an "unacceptable" danger to bees.
Scientists have long thought that clothianidin is at least partially to blame for the alarming rate that bees have been dying off in the U.S. - nearly 30% of our bee population, per year, has been lost to so-called colony collapse since 2006.
But the EPA has repeatedly ignored scientists' warnings and Americans' urgings to ban its use, citing lack of evidence.
Now, the EFSA study could be a major breakthrough to convince the EPA to take emergency action, and suspend the use of clothianidin to stop the precipitous decline in global honeybee populations.
I just signed a petition urging the EPA to take action. add you name here to speak out for the bees:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/efsa_bees/?r_by=-6672290-HiySW8...
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Permalink Reply by Jim Dawdy on February 7, 2013 at 4:31pm In the same vein,I created a White House petition asking the administration to direct the EPA to do a comprehensive, well-funded third-party study of the effect of agricultural chemicals on honeybees. Please sign...only need 99,999 signatures by March 9!
Permalink Reply by Phill Remick on February 12, 2013 at 9:23pm Now u only need 99,998.. Your welcome!
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