[ocba] EPA and the Honey Bee

Kitty Cunningham klparmley at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 20:05:48 EST 2012


It seems that "systemic pesticides" and "neonicotinoid" are words that keep 
cropping up lately.  Until they come up with truly self-pollinating plants, 
that's just got to be a bad idea.

Allowing trials to be performed by the companies who are making the 
pesticides is crazy.  Medical papers require any authors to publish any 
predisposition for the outcome.   It is ludicrous to think that a company 
making pesticides won't try to build a study to get the answer they want.

And only testing for whether a chemical is lethal to bees, not what 
sub-lethal doses do just doesn't give a real world perspective.

-----Original Message----- 
From: mhanks
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 7:29 PM
To: birdcr at concentric.net ; ocba at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [ocba] EPA and the Honey Bee

Thanks Randy for sharing this...just more bad new for the week, but finally 
bringing light to one of the biggest causes for bees deaths and poor health. 
If I understand it correctly, europe and a few other countries have already 
banned this a few years ago....hope we catch up soon!

thanks for the info.
marty


-----Original Message-----
>From: "birdcr at concentric.net" <birdcr at concentric.net>
>Sent: Jan 30, 2012 6:21 PM
>To: ocba at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [ocba] EPA and the Honey Bee
>
>
>Folks,
>
>The bees here have been going crazy with pollen everyday the pile
>up at the entrance. Not seen any local maple in bloom, it must be
>here somewhere.
>
>Here is another article for you about the EPA and the honey bee,
>ouch.. I think we need to petition the EPA about these issues.
>
>http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/30-9
>
>Cheers,
>Randy Emmitt

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