Neonicotinoid, Bayer, Pesticides Kill Honey Bees

Bayer who recently bought Monsanto and now deals In the same poisons, Is a major producer of neonicotinoids and a new large scale study shows that neonicotinoid pesticides harm bees.

The most extensive study to date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes that they harm both honeybees and wild bees. Researchers said that exposure to the chemicals left honeybee hives less likely to survive over winter, while bumble bees and solitary bees produced fewer queens. The study spanned two thousand hectares across the UK, Germany and Hungary and was setup to establish the "real world" Impacts of the pesticides.

Neonicotinoids were placed under a temporary ban, In Europe In 2013, after concerns about there Impact on bees. The European commission said that It Intends to put forward a new proposal to further restrict the use of the dangerous chemicals.

Professor Richard Pywell, from the centre for the Ecology and Hydrology In Oxfordshire, who carried out the research said: "Our findings are a cause for serious concern, we have shown for the first time the negative effects of neonicotinoid coated seed dressings on honeybees and we've also shown similar negative effects on wild bees."
"This Is Important because many crops on Earth are Insect pollinated and without pollinators we would struggle to produce some foods."