Honeybees and Neonicotinoid Pesticides

“Push to Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides Takes on Political Overtones: Honeybee Research Questioned,” by The National Cotton Council.
As environmental activists coalesce around a ban on the neonicotinoid insecticides as the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a timely article recently published in Forbes magazine by Jon Entine, a senior fellow at George Mason U., calls for cooler heads to prevail on the issue. Entine points out that, over the past five years, some 30 percent of bees in the United States have disappeared — about 50 percent more than the rate expected. Read the full article on the Southeast Farm Press.