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Neonicotinoids in pesticides highly toxic to bees

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April 24, 2007 entomologists on the maarec.org website bravely posted an article naming the pesticides known to be highly toxic to bees. These contain neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids have been around since the 1990’s but about 3 years ago the neonicotinoids were changed then introduced and distributed world wide. As use of them spread like in California, with its 50% loss of bees, so, too did loss of bees and all pollinators rise.
Neonicotinoids cause weakened immune system, loss of appetite, disoriented behavior, and I believe, loss of memory. Three years ago beekeeper noticed some bees show bizarre behavior and failure to eat. Die off wasn’t too high. Then this November CCD worldwide began to skyrocket as use of the pesticides rose.
Now you know as well as I do no sane grower or gardener would deliberately kill off all the bees. Farmers and growers were ignorant.
The truth is out but it seems few have the courage to name the behemoth of biotechnology, Bayer Crop Science which distributes Admire, Poncho, Gaucho, and Provado and also another large company, Syngenta marketing Actara. I do not know for sure which company or companies are marketing all the products but please ask everyone to immediately stop the use of the pesticides named in the article that was written by Maryann Frasier of Penn State University.
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/CCDPpt/RecGrowersUsingNeonics.pdf
Thank you

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Einstein Quote is an Urban Legend by Anonymous :: NR0

Snopes had investigated that fictional quote by Einstein. Here’s the link. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp. Unless you believe a French propaganda pamphlet printed in 1994, he never said anything about bees..why would he..he was a physicist.

Honeybees are not native to North America, so we got along okay without them before they were imported from Europe and Asia. They do play a key role in our agricultural economy, so there is reason to be concerned, but then again, they went through similar cycles in the 60’s and ’70’s, before there were cell phones or "global warming." So let’s put it in perspective…we do need to research this, but the flurry of misinformation and misquotes is amazing and more harmful than the truth.

Patrick Baczenas

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