Federal Court to EPA: No, You Can’t Approve This Pesticide That Kills Bees —By Tom Philpott | Fri Sep. 11, 2015 6:00 AM EDT 417 Dancestrokes/Shutterstock On Thursday, a federal appeals court struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a pesticide called sulfoxaflor. Marketed by agrichemical giant Dow AgroSciences, sulfoxaflor belongs to a […]
Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought Outlawing a type of insecticides is not a panacea. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) Share By Todd Woody of Quartz www.qz.com As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated […]
Large numbers of bees are disappearing from hives. ROB TIPA/FAIRFAX NZ Large numbers of bees are disappearing from hives. Independent scientists have identified a new parasite in bees on the Coromandel peninsula, one of several regions around New Zealand that have reported the loss of thousands of colonies of honey bees since last spring […]