Trump EPA OKs 'Emergency' to Dump Bee-killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres

Trump EPA OKs 'Emergency' to Dump Bee-killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres: Center for Biological Diversity: The Environmental Protection Agency reported this week that in 2018 it issued so-called 'emergency' approvals to spray sulfoxaflor — an insecticide the agency considers 'very highly toxic' to bees — on more than 16 million acres of crops known to attract bees.
(Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity; February 15, 2019)


N. B.:  For more information on the Chiral Neonicotinoid Sulfoxaflor, please refer to the link of my former August 16, 2018 blog post provided below:

 Sulfoxaflor Exposure and its Detrimental Effects on Bees - Studies



                           Megachile rotundata Bee (Agricultural Research Service, 19 March 2008)


By the way...


List of Foods We Will Lose if We Don't Save the Bees
(Christina SARICH, HoneyLove.org; August 15, 2013)
https://honeylove.org/list-of-food/



Website:


Insects & Pollinators
(NRCS - USDA)
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/plantsanimals/pollinate/


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