February 23, 2021 | The same pesticides implicated in the worldwide decline of insect pollinators also present significant risks to their avian counterparts, hummingbirds. Well-known for their nectar-fueled hovering flight powered by wings beating over 50 times per second, hummingbirds display unique reactions to toxic pesticides. Researchers at the University of Toronto published in Scientific […]
Category: Bees/Pollinators
Monarch Butterfly Near Extinction—Calls for Urgent Federal Action
January 27, 2021 | Lowest ever recorded! That’s the result of a yearly winter monarch count along the California coast, overseen each year by the conservation group Xerces Society. In 2020, citizen scientists counted only 2,000 butterflies. The findings indicate that many on the planet today are likely to experience, within their lifetimes, a world […]
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Pesticides Linked to Honeybee Deaths Pose More Risks, European Group Says
By DAVID JOLLY April 8, 2015 | PARIS — An influential European scientific body said on Wednesday that a group of pesticides believed to contribute to mass deaths of honeybees is probably more damaging to ecosystems than previously thought and questioned whether the substances had a place in sustainable agriculture. The finding could have repercussions […]
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Study Finds “Bee-Friendly” Plants Often Contain Harmful Pesticides
Are bee-killers lurking in your backyard? According to a national study released today, there’s a good chance they are. The study, Gardeners Beware 2014, released by Friends of the Earth and other organizations, including the Maryland Pesticide Network, shows that 36 out of 71 (51 percent) of garden plant samples purchased at top garden retailers […]
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Honeybees and Groundwater: Canaries in the Pesticide Coalmine
Maryland’s Pesticide Reporting and Information workgroup heard from a new voice about the need for a centralized reporting system for basic information — information that is already legally required — on when and where pesticides are used commercially in our state. In his testimony to the workgroup, President of the Central Maryland Beekeepers Roger Williams […]
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Birds, Bees, and Aquatic Life Threatened by Gross Underestimate of Toxicity of World’s Most Widely Used Pesticide
Abstract: March 19, 2013 | As part of a study on impacts from the world’s most widely used class of insecticides, nicotine-like chemicals called neonicotinoids, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has called for a ban on their use as seed treatments and for the suspension of all applications pending an independent review of the products’ effects […]
Bee research details harm from insecticides
By Marc Kaufman, Published: March 29 New research has begun to unravel the mystery of why bees are disappearing in alarming numbers worldwide: Some of the pesticides most commonly used by farmers appear to be changing bee behavior in small but fatal ways. Two new studies found that honeybees and bumblebees had trouble foraging for […]
Common pesticide makes honeybees get lost and reduces bumblebee hive weight, new studies say
WASHINGTON, A common class of pesticide is causing problems for honeybees and bumblebees, important species already in trouble, two studies suggest. But the findings don’t explain all the reasons behind a long-running bee decline, and other experts found one of the studies less than convincing. The new research suggests the chemicals used in the pesticide, […]
Scientists link mass death of British bees to farm pesticides
Nicotine-based pesticides in widespread use by farmers are implicated in the mass deaths of bees, according to a new study by US scientists. Rob Edwards, Environment Editor Herald Scotland January 15, 2012 The authoritative, peer-reviewed research undermines the pesticide industry’s long-repeated arguments that bees are not being harmed, and piles pressure on UK and US […]
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USDA Research Links Neonicotinoid Pesticides to Bee Deaths
(Beyond Pesticides, January 25, 2011) Research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Bee Research Laboratory and Penn State University shows that the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid contribute, at extremely low levels‚ to bee deaths and possibly colony collapse disorder (CCD), the widespread disappearance of honey bees that has killed off more than a third of […]
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