Neonicotinoids and bees

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,138

  May 2015

  You can sign a petition to keep the ban on neonicotinoids here https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/ban-bee-killing-pesticides-for-good-937d4563-7694-41a8-a642-65e6b0e51453

  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,138

  March 2017

  This is good to hear

  http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/rapeseed_farms_praised_for_not_using_bee_harming_pesticides_on_crops_1_4915354

  If farmers can do it, so can gardeners

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Bee witched Posts: 1,295

  March 2017

  Hi Dove,

  Great to see there are some farmers who value the contribution bees make to the environment (and also to pollinating their crops!!)

  I'm aware that not all farmers are using seed dressed with neonicotinoides this year.... however, some of these will be resorting to some of the older chemical sprays they used before the ban. This is not good news for bees as the spraying happens on a nice sunny day when the rape flowers will be open ...  and being visited by pollinating insects.

  Farmers are encouraged to let local beekeepers know when they will be spraying ... but not all of them do this.

  Here's hoping for a lovely summer so the bees can thrive.

  Bee

  

  Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  
  
  A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  

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