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[Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer AT outlands.ca>]

On a similar note, there's currently a world-wide petition running at
Avaaz on banning neonicotinoid:

    http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees


There is over one million signature already.  Those that care should
sign it and circulate it in their network.


On 11-01-20 01:31 AM, Leigh Hauter wrote:
> http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/exclusive-bees-facing-a-poisoned-spring-2189267.html
> 
> This article in Britian's Independent reports that Dr.Pettis and team at
> the USDA's Beltsville Bee Research Laboratory completed a study two
> years ago which shows that even minute  quantities of the systemic
> neurotoxin imidacloprid makes honeybees susceptible to disease
> 
> /"The American study, led by Dr Jeffrey Pettis, research leader at the
> US government bee lab in Beltsville, Maryland, has demonstrated that the
> insects' vulnerability to infection is increased by the presence of
> imidacloprid, even at the most microscopic doses. Dr Pettis and his team
> found that increased disease infection happened even when the levels of
> the insecticide were so tiny that they could not subsequently be
> detected in the bees, although the researchers knew that they had been
> dosed with it./
> //
> /Dr Pettis told The Independent his research had now been put forward
> for publication. "[It] was completed almost two years ago but it has
> been too long in getting out," he said. "I have submitted my manuscript
> to a new journal but cannot give a publication date or share more of
> this with you at this time." makes honeybees susceptible to disease./
> /
> /
> /However, it is known about, because Dr Pettis and a member of his team,
> Dennis van Engelsdorp, of Penn State University - both leaders in
> research focusing on colony collapse disorder (CCD) - have spoken about
> it at some length in a film about bee deaths which has been shown widely
> in Europe, but not yet in Britain or the US - although it has been seen
> by The Independent.
> 
> In The Strange Disappearance of The Bees, made by the American
> film-maker Mark Daniels, Pettis and van Engelsdorp reveal that they
> exposed two groups of bees to the well-known bee disease nosema. One of
> the groups was also fed tiny doses of imidacloprid. There was a higher
> uptake of infection in the bees fed the insecticide, even though it
> could not subsequently be detected, which raises the possibility that
> such a phenomenon occurring in the wild might be simply undetectable./
> //
> /Although the US study remains unpublished, it has been almost exactly
> replicated by French researchers at the National Institute for
> Agricultural Research in Avignon. They published their study in the
> journal Environmental Microbiology and said: "We demonstrated that the
> interaction between nosema and a neonicotinoid (imidacloprid)
> significantly weakened honeybees."/
> /
> /
> 
> 
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