Guest Blog: Teaching pollinator importance
This summer, I did a project for my Girl Scout Gold award focused on the importance of bees and bats and what we...
26 July, 2012
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EPA sidesteps chance to protect bees
All too often, the rules of pesticide regulation are cumbersome and make for slow change. But EPA had an opportunity to take swift,...
24 July, 2012
Bee die-offs are an emergency.
In March, PAN and Beyond Pesticides joined partners and beekeepers from around the country in filing a legal petition with EPA, calling on...
25 June, 2012
Bees & Pesticides: State of the Science
This week PAN released Honey Bees and Pesticides: State of the Science, a 22-page report on the factors behind colony collapse disorder (CCD) with...
11 May, 2012
GE corn & sick honey bees – what’s the link?
No farmer in his or her right mind wants to poison pollinators. When I spoke with one Iowa corn farmer in January and...
20 April, 2012
Guest Blog: My petition to save the bees
I am a third generation backyard gardener. It was in my father’s and my grandmother’s gardens that I learned to love many insects,...
12 April, 2012
Momentum to protect bees is mounting. Write your local paper and urge action.
The evidence is mounting linking neonicotinoid pesticides and Colony Collapse Disorder. Join the public conversation and help build momentum to protect bees.Decisionmakers read...
09 April, 2012
Yet MORE evidence that pesticides are key culprit in bee die-offs
Scientific evidence continues to mount strengthening the case that neonicotinoid pesticides are indeed key drivers behind colony collapse disorder (CCD). Three new studies...
06 April, 2012
Guest Blog: EPA fails to protect honey bees
Beekeepers frequently refer to their bees as their “girls” because all the worker bees are female. Hobby beekeepers, like myself, find it convenient...
22 March, 2012