{"id":8405,"date":"2015-05-23T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2015-05-23T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T14:27:56","slug":"suicide-by-pesticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8405","title":{"rendered":"Suicide By Pesticide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suicide By Pesticide<\/a><\/h3>\n
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What the honey bee die-off means for humanity<\/strong><\/div>\n
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As you are aware, honey bees have been suffering from something called\u00a0Colony Collapse Disorder<\/em>. In practice, what this means is that the bees simply vanish from their hives, leaving behind their most precious worldly possessions: honey and larvae.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What causes these mysterious vanishing acts has been something of a mystery. But because the phenomenon began really ramping up in 2006, we can focus in on some suspects.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s always possible that the bees are suffering \u2018death from a thousand cuts\u2019 — where it\u2019s no one specific thing but rather a wide range of minor insults, ranging from loss of forage to herbicides to fungicides to pesticides — there\u2019s actually quite strong evidence pointing to a specific class of pesticides calledneonicotinoids<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This class of pesticides is massively and indiscriminately toxic. More specific to our investigation here, it was only introduced into widespread use shortly before the massive bee die-offs began.<\/p>\n

Biocide = Suicide<\/h2>\n

Actually, it\u2019s not really proper to call neonicotinoids \u2018pesticides\u2019 because they don’t solely target pests. They should more accurately be called \u2018biocides\u2019 because they kill\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0insects equally and indiscriminately.<\/p>\n

How toxic are they?<\/p>\n

The neonics are so toxic that it’s sufficient to simply lightly coat a seed with it before planting. When the seed grows to maturity, the plant will still have enough absorbed toxin circulating within its system to kill any insect that munches on it or sucks on its sap.<\/p>\n

Think about that for a minute. Coat a kernel of corn with a neonic, sow it, and the mature plant will still be lethal to a corn borer when the corn ears develop several months later.<\/p>\n

But not just to insects:<\/p>\n

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“A single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a song bird.” As a long time environmental lawyer and campaigner, I should not have been stunned by that fact but I was. Shaking my head in dismay, I read on, “Even a tiny grain of wheat or canola treated with the …neonicotinoid… can fatally poison a bird.”<\/p>\n

(Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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