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During this year’s neonicotinoid-free maize sowing in Italy hardly a bee colony has been lost, bar a suspicious case where some leftover seed from last year may have been used.
It does look like a resounding, spectacular success. During this year’s neonicotinoid-free maize sowing in Italy hardly a bee colony has been lost, bar a suspicious case where some leftover seed from last year may have been used.
The ban on the insecticide-soaked seed coating enforced by the Italian government last year seems to have worked wonders, judging from the freshest data collected on the ground by researchers, beekeepers and regional authorities alike.
HunkaHunka
During this year’s neonicotinoid-free maize sowing in Italy hardly a bee colony has been lost, bar a suspicious case where some leftover seed from last year may have been used.
It does look like a resounding, spectacular success. During this year’s neonicotinoid-free maize sowing in Italy hardly a bee colony has been lost, bar a suspicious case where some leftover seed from last year may have been used.
The ban on the insecticide-soaked seed coating enforced by the Italian government last year seems to have worked wonders, judging from the freshest data collected on the ground by researchers, beekeepers and regional authorities alike.
Bees _restored to health_ in Italy after this spring’s neonicotinoid-free maize sowing
This is amazing... well maybe not. It's amazing that Italy has there bees back... but pretty ridiculous that they lost them to begin with. Is there no Quality Assurance testing on these things? Were they tested with manual pollination and therefore the bee factor was not caught?
So when will this begin to influence the laws from the US?
TKDRL
reply to post by HunkaHunka
It seems to me, any quality testing(If any is done at all) is only taken so far. The impact of the surrounding environment is irrelevant. They are only looking at profit made from crops. Bees killed don't matter, poison leech off into the groundwater means squat etc. It's not a good mentality to have at all, it is what we seem to be stuck with though. living in the time we are living.
it won't be long before the gmo crowd comes in and say's doesn't mean any thing.
Phage
What do neonicotinoid treated seeds have to do with GM crops?
On May 24, 2013, the European Commission imposed a number of use restrictions on neonicotinoid insecticides, which are suspected to be a contributing factor of bee colony collapse disorder.[16][17] Recently-published evidence that neonicotinoids disrupt the immune systems of bees may lend political support to the EU's actions.[13]
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1) What do GE seeds have to do with neonicotinoids and bees? and 2) How can an Iowa corn farmer find himself feeling unable to farm without poisoning pollinators? In other words, where did U.S. corn cultivation go wrong?
The short answer to both questions starts with a slow motion train wreck that began in the mid-1990s: Corn integrated pest management (IPM) fell apart at the seams. Rather, it was intentionally unraveled by Bayer and Monsanto.
Honey bees caught in the cross-fire
Corn is far from the only crop treated by neonicotinoids, but it is the largest use of arable land in North America, and honey bees rely on corn as a major protein source. At least 94 percent of the 92 million acres of corn planted across the U.S. this year will have been treated with either clothianidin or thiamethoxam (another neonicotinoid).
As we head into peak corn planting season throughout the U.S. Midwest, bees will once again "get it from all sides" as they:
•fly through clothianidin-contaminated planter dust;
•gather clothianidin-laced corn pollen, which will then be fed to emerging larva;
•gather water from acutely toxic, pesticide-laced guttation droplets; and/or
•gather pollen and nectar from nearby fields where forage sources such as dandelions have taken up these persistent chemicals from soil that's been contaminated year on year since clothianidin's widespread introduction into corn cultivation in 2003.
GE corn & neonicotinoid seed treatments go hand-in-hand
Really not posting this answer for you, as you already know yet continue to feign ignorance.