All posts tagged with effects of pesticides on bees

Politicians join with conservation groups in calling on the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides until a full scientific review is conducted

March 4, 2018 -
Posted by Edsel Cook

(Natural News) State politicians and conservation groups urged the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to hold off approval of bee-killing neonics in order to conduct a full scientific review of the pesticides involved, reported an EcoWatch article. Congressmen Earl Blumenauer and Jim McGovern recently reintroduced the Saving America’s Pollinators Act, a bill that blocks new neonicotinoid insecticides while the […]

in: Agriculture, Animals, Culture & Society, Environment, Honey Bees, Politics, Politics
Probiotics found to protect honey bees from toxic effects of pesticides

June 22, 2017 -
Posted by Tim Wesley

(Natural News) Probiotics — the live bacteria found inside your gut — can be the answer to saving mankind. According to a recent study from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University, probiotics can protect honey bees from the fatal side effects of pesticides that people use to protect their crops. Honey bees play an important […]

in: Honey Bees, Pesticides, Science

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