Tag: neonicotinoid pesticides
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Saving Pollinators from an Imaginary Bee-pocalypse
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Apr. 12, 2021) — A torrent of media stories from 2013-2014 presented frightening tales of “unprecedented” colony collapse disorder (CCD) among honeybees, conjuring up visions of a “bee-pocalypse” and “a world without bees,” a world in which flowers and agriculture would be decimated. Many articles blamed neonicotinoid pesticides, while others…
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Bill to Reinstate Obama Pesticide Ban Ignores Science
HOUSE LEGISLATION TO BAN NEONICOTINOIDS IN WILDLIFE REFUGES WOULD HURT BEES AND WILDLIFE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jul. 20, 2019) — The battle over neonicotinoid pesticides rages on. In response to one of many collusive sue-and-settle lawsuits between environmentalist groups and Obama environmental officials, in 2014 the Department of the Interior’s Fish & Wildlife Service…
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Advancing Scientific Integrity on Bees
PUTTING A BEEHIVE AT THE VP’s RESIDENCE COULD SPUR PEOPLE’S UNDERSTANDING OF BEE PROBLEMS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jun. 18, 2017) — Second Lady Karen Pence and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently teamed up to install a honeybee hive on the grounds of the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.…
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Don’t Bee-lieve the Latest Bee-pocalypse Scare
NOW WILD BEE JUNK SCIENCE AND SCARE STORIES DRIVE DEMANDS FOR ANTI-PESTICIDE REGULATIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Aug. 27, 2016) — As stubborn facts ruin their narrative that neonicotinoid pesticides are causing a honeybee-pocalypse, environmental pressure groups are shifting to new scares to justify their demands for “neonic” bans. Honeybee populations and colony numbers in…