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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] The Fatal Sting of Clothianidin On Honeybees
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:51:06 -0700


AUDIO The Fatal Sting of Clothianidin On Honeybees
The Organic View
Date / Time: 2/7/2011 2:00 PM
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theorganicview

Honeybees pollinate ¾ of all of our agricultural food as well as other
important crops such as cotton that are used for textiles. Without them, life
as we know it would cease to exist. Any fatal impact on the honeybee would
create a monumental disaster. Clothianidin has been widely used as a seed
treatment on many of the USA’s key crops (which include canola, soy,
sunflowers, wheat and sugar beet crops) for eight growing seasons under a
conditional registration granted while EPA waited for Bayer Crop Science, the
pesticide’s maker, to conduct a field study assessing the insecticide’s
threat to bee colony health. The EPA has moved from granting a conditional
registration to full registration of this chemical just in time for the
spring planting. Clothianidin is of the neonicotinoid family of systemic
pesticides, which are taken up by a plant’s vascular system and expressed
through pollen, nectar and gutation droplets from which bees then forage and
drink. Scientists are concerned about the mix and cumulative effects of the
multiple pesticides bees are exposed to in these ways. Neonicotinoids are of
particular concern because they have cumulative, sublethal effects on insect
pollinators that correspond to CCD symptoms – namely, neurobehavioral and
immune system disruptions. In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show,
host, June Stoyer will speak to Tom Theobald, Master Beekeeper, President and
founding board member of the Boulder County Beekeepers' Association about the
impact of this devastation chemical. Stay tuned!




  • [Livingontheland] The Fatal Sting of Clothianidin On Honeybees, Tradingpost, 02/11/2011

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