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03/30/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Is Monsanto responsible for a 90 percent drop in the bumblebee population?

The rusty patched bumblebee was, at one time, an ordinary bee with a substantial population across the US. But the once-common bee has fallen prey to human action, and the number of these little pollinators has declined drastically. Over the last two decades, the rusty patched bumblebee population has declined by a staggering 90 percent, […]

03/24/2017 / By Vicki Batts

56 percent of Maryland’s bees disappeared in 2016 as pollinator collapse accelerates

The decimation of bee populations is a national concern, but beekeepers in the state of Maryland have been hit especially hard by the wave of bee deaths. In 2016 alone, beekeepers in the mid-Atlantic state faced a devastating loss equating to more than 56 percent of their bee colonies, according to the Bee Informed Partnership […]

01/14/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Court allows seeds to continue to be sprayed with bee-toxic pesticides

At the end of November, a judge from the Northern District of California delivered a crushing blow to our nation’s beekeepers, and effectively approved of the EPA policies that will allow seeds to be coated with bee-toxic pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, or neonics for short. These pesticides, which can persist in soil and water with […]

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