Encouraging: France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/france-wildlife-insect-bird-numbers-rise-neonicotinoid-pesticide-ban-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#neonicotinoid #pesticide #biodiversity #ecosystems

Hallo Crowd!

Ich habe vor ein paar Monaten #Flupyradifuron benutzen müssen, um wenigstens Teile meiner Zimmer-Pflanzen retten zu können.
Ab wann ist der #Wirkstoff insoweit abgebaut, dass ein #Säugetier wie eine #Katze die behandelte #Pflanze wieder essen darf?

#Neonicotinoid #Biologie #Chemie #Pflanzenschutz #Tierschutz #Frage #Hilfe

Some good news for bees in the UK! I love it when shitty Tory policy is overturned.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/23/government-decision-not-to-authorise-pesticide-is-sweet-as-honey-for-pollinators

#ukpol #ukpolitics #Britain #UK #bees #environment #nature #neonicotinoid #pesticide #pesticides

#Bayer’s #pesticides are harming #bees

The use of #neonicotinoid pesticides, like those produced by Bayer, has helped make much of America’s landscape toxic to bees.

By Steve Blackledge
December 9, 2022

"#Pollinators are struggling — in large part because pesticides have made much of their environment toxic.

"Over the past quarter century, the increased use of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, or neonics for short, has made America’s agricultural landscape roughly 48 times more toxic for bees.

Bees and other pollinators are dying from exposure to these toxic pesticides — and we need to protect them. That’s why we’re calling on one of the country’s largest pesticide manufacturers, Bayer, to do right by our bees and stop making and selling neonics."

Read more / take action:
https://environmentamerica.org/articles/bayers-pesticides-are-harming-bees/

#Neonics #SaveTheBees

#Bee-harming #pesticides found in majority of English waterways

by Anna Lamche, 2 Dec 2024

"Pesticides that harm bees were found in the 'majority' of English waterways tested in the last year, according to data analysis by two environmental charities.

"The Rivers Trust and Wildlife and Countryside Link found neonicotinoid pesticides were present in 85% of English rivers tested by the Environment Agency between 2023 and 2024.

"The banned pesticide was signed off for emergency use by the previous government to combat a disease impacting sugar beet crops – a decision for which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) is now being investigated.

"On Monday, the government promised 'to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides that threaten bees and other vital pollinators.'"

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ew8dpw58qo

#Neonicotinoid #Pesticides #Pollinators #Extinction #Bayer #SaveTheBees