As a Pest Control Technician in the US, it’s absolutely wild to consider using Neonicotinoids for agricultural pest control.
A very large part of why Neonicotinoids (Neo-nics) are so dangerous for Bees, is that unlike other forms of pesticides, they are “biocompatible” with plants (they’re based on nicotine after all).
Even just getting Neo-nics near plants can allow them to project the full pesticide directly into the nectar, after the root systems pull the Neo-nics in.
Another large reason that Neo-nics are super dangerous to Bees, is called the “transfer effect”.
Essentially if a Bee gets any of the Neo-nic on them, they can spread it by just saying “Hello” to the other Bees in the hive.
So you have Neo-nic laden Nectar, getting brought directly back to the hive… It’s game over.
This is heartbreaking
Why the random caps?
It’s how I type.
How long are we going to thumb our noses at the environment. We knew better almost seventy years ago. But yet here we are still massively overusing pesticides and fertilizers.
The native Americans, and probably other slaughtered native people, knew thousands of years ago
We really need ro stop thinking of bees as cute bugs and understand that they are livestock.
“Hey, we are lifting the ban on spraying cattle-poison from the air,” sounds much more crazy.
Having lived in the US all my life, I think the public reaction to cattle poison spray would be “well, as long as I can’t taste it in the meat.”
I wish we all had more empathy for the life we share this planet with.
It’s not just empathy for the sake of empathy. We are part of a delicate ecosystem that is affected in millions of ways, especially unnatural things. Everything we do to it will splash back on us.
I’ve thought of a way to make neonicotinoids have a built-in limited lifespan.
Typically the use of fertilizers and pesticides for farming just increases the need to use fertilizers and pesticides the next year. Its not a very sustainable application. Make it through this season because you poisoned all the aphids, but you completely destroy the food web they are a part of too and leave nothing but more room for them to spread next time.
I’m tired of this planet. How do I get off?
Who needs bees anyway, they just sting you, right
Its worse than that, they also buzzz around and thats just bad, imagine how hard it is to say “le buzzz”
The law seems reasonable since the use of the pesticides is limited and only if there is no alternative. Bees can still feed on flowers in people’s yards and non-farmland.
Christian Pons, the UNAF president, told reporters the law “claims to defend French food sovereignty, but since when is it acceptable to destroy one sector – that of beekeepers – in order to save another, for example that of hazelnut trees?”
Also, how would bees feed on flowers when they’re poisoned, disoriented, and dying?
But there is no choice. It’s either the farm sector or the bee sector. I think the farm sector is more important since it produces more food.
I assume not all bee hives are located near farms.
I read barkeepers and was confused.
Hard to make mead without honey
