Bees dying everywhere!

Bee-killing neonics are still being sprayed in Europe. Tell rule-breakers to respect the ban!
All the progress you and I have made to keep bees safe from toxic pesticides… what if it just disappeared?

Countries including Belgium, Spain and Romania want to pretend our Europe-wide ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids never happened. Using an "emergency" loophole, they're allowing tonnes of the banned chemicals to be sprayed on crops that could end up on our plates.

Even in the midst of the pandemic, Belgium granted a new re-authorisation for one of the toxic neonics, thinking we'd be too distracted to notice! If we don't act to stop this, our ban will be useless -- and the bees will suffer the consequences.

We've already called on the EU to stop countries from breaking the ban. Now it's time to double down by putting pressure on individual governments to protect the bees -- before it's too late.

It's not small, struggling farmers who want to keep Europe's fields full of banned pesticides -- it's megacorporations like Bayer and Syngenta, who're behind many of the so-called "emergency" requests for neonic exemptions.

They claim that crops like corn and sugar beets can't be grown without neonics -- but Germany, France and Sweden have all rejected applications to re-authorise the bee-killing pesticides. If they can grow crops without killing bees, other countries can too!

Our food system doesn't need toxic pesticides to thrive -- but it does need bees. Unfortunately, pesticide bans aren’t always enough to protect these crucial pollinators. Bayer, Syngenta and co. have millions to spend on court cases, government lobbying, anything to keep churning out litre after litre of their bee-harming chemicals.

But with our combined people power, we’ve got a real chance of stopping them. Over 150,000 of us showed the EU we’d had enough of fake “emergency” exemptions to our bee-saving neonicotinoid ban. Hundreds more SumOfUs members chipped in so that the Bee Defender Alliance, a group of independent scientists and beekeepers, could take on Bayer in court to fight the pesticide giant’s latest legal challenge to the ban.

We can’t give up until our bees are safe. Tell Romania, Lithuania, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Finland to stop using bee-killing neonicotinoids!

eddie wrote:Great answer Wolf. It is a genuine worry. The world is going to shit.

Original Quill wrote:

eddie wrote:Great answer Wolf. It is a genuine worry. The world is going to shit.

Most people give opinions, which is all right.  Wolf always has substance to his postings.  I keep telling you guys...he is highly educated, and most informative.

@Wolf: it is a good answer, and timely.  People are concerned about this issue, particular with this killer wasp around.

eddie wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Most people give opinions, which is all right.  Wolf always has substance to his postings.  I keep telling you guys...he is highly educated, and most informative.

@Wolf: it is a good answer, and timely.  People are concerned about this issue, particular with this killer wasp around.

Okay because I need to set the record straight:

I have no doubt that Wolf is informative on some subjects - hence my genuine questions and answers to him, here.
What he lacks is an ability to simply answer a post without giving petty abuse.

Now stop doing that thing you do, whereby you can’t see the bumble for the bees.

See what I did there Quilly, me old mate?

Original Quill wrote:

eddie wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Most people give opinions, which is all right.  Wolf always has substance to his postings.  I keep telling you guys...he is highly educated, and most informative.

@Wolf: it is a good answer, and timely.  People are concerned about this issue, particular with this killer wasp around.

Okay because I need to set the record straight:

I have no doubt that Wolf is informative on some subjects - hence my genuine questions and answers to him, here.
What he lacks is an ability to simply answer a post without giving petty abuse.

Now stop doing that thing you do, whereby you can’t see the bumble for the bees.

See what I did there Quilly, me old mate?

Yes, you were being very nice.  Let's just rewind...  

Original Quill wrote:We were having a nice discussion, complimenting people.

eddie wrote:

Original Quill wrote:We were having a nice discussion, complimenting people.

Perhaps Wolf should try that.
This thread is about bees btw, not how great you think your mates are.

Syl wrote:In the scale of bee scarcity this is hardly news, but this spring I have found two huge bees, maybe queens,  drowned in my kitchen sink, it's never happened before.
Bees apparently go searching for water if it's dry, unfortunately they can easilly drown.