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They have been doing studies and it seems that bees that have been exposed to the pesticides known as Neonicitinoids do a poorer job of pollinating plants.
That has  implications for agriculture that are not good. Too many of our bees have been exposed to some degree. We are reducing the effectiveness of our pollinators. At some point our crops will be of such low yield that they will not be worth harvesting.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bee-ne...-1.3324517

Knowing the negative effect of this pesticide is important. Now we need to act to protect the bees. Nothing less than a complete ban will be enough to protect our bees.
Yes, they should ban this pesticide! I love bees from a distance and see how they are needed on this earth.
Without bees life as we know it will change.

I think everyone admits how bad this pesticide is. Some places have banned it, but we need a global ban. Anything less is risky.
We won't like the world we end up with if we kill off all the pollinators.
Yes, I agree. Smile
There are places where bans are in place and people are working hard to protect bees. 

Oddly a big city like Toronto is bee friendly. We banned pesticides, people are planting bee/butterfly gardens and there are hives being looked after on the rooves of a number of high-rises. There are a number of bee rescue groups  and beekeeper cooperatives. There are even stores selling natural bee products like hand made soaps using honey and of course special honeys.

I have a number of kinds of wild bees in my garden and I want to built them a nesting area in the spring.
Bees are in trouble, but a lot of people want to help them.
That's great that people want to help the bees. I am afraid of them but know they need protecting. I have heard of some bees as killer bees. Have you heard of them? I saw a story on tv where swarms of them stung a man and he died. I don't think they are native to the U.S. or Canada.
Killer bees are a hybrid and I believe they can't exist in colder climates.

When in doubt. look it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee


I think there were problems when the  "killer" bees first happened as an accidental cross. Now that they have established themselves we don't hear much about them.  If someone was attacked they must have made the hive feel threatened. The hybrid bees are more protective of their hives than the bees we are used to.

Considering how serious the bee decline is we should hope that the killer bees at least are strong enough to survive.
One day we may be dependent on them. We can't pollinate our crops ourselves.  Without bees we face some very serious food shortages.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...ps-says-un

It is basically an emergency. If we do not act quickly we could lose many of the worlds pollinators.
Yes, I see how the bees are needed for pollination. I just mentioned that about killer bees because it scared me so bad to see that on the tv.
I think a lot of the TV stuff sensationalized the killer bees.  They were supposed to be a terrible emergency and it sounded like we were all in danger. Now you never hear about them.

The real emergency is the decline in bee populations.  It will be funny if the killer bees are the ones that survive. We will be dependent on the bees that we thought were a danger.

Actually we will be happy to have any pollinators we can get.
I hope they will stop using bee killing pesticides. In this day and age they should know better!
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