Honey farms, smallholdings and bees, bees and honey

Mining bee needs help, say FoE

8:41am Thursday 9th May 2013

A new report from the University of Reading shows that the population of Britain’s largest mining bee, the Scabious Bee, has fallen dramatically. It is now only confined to small pockets mostly in the South West.

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Crucial European vote on bees and pesticide

8:35am Monday 29th April 2013

EU states are due to to vote today on whether to restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths.

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Bee protestors urge Paterson to ban pesticide

6:00am Sunday 28th April 2013

More than 100 people have staged a protest in Parliament Square against the government’s policy on neonicotinoid pesticides, which many scientists blame for the decline in bees.

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Waitrose tells smallholders to stop using pesticide linked to bee decline

2:00am Saturday 13th April 2013

Waitrose is asking fruit, vegetable and flower suppliers to avoid using pesticides linked with bee declines.

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Greenpeace calls for action on pesticides after concern over bees

10:35am Wednesday 10th April 2013

Greenpeace has added its voice to those calling for a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, fearing the chemicals damage bees.

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UK "complacent" over pesticide threat to bees

8:43am Friday 5th April 2013

An influential cross-party committee of MPs has published a damning report about the UK’s "extraordinary complacency" over the use of pesticides linked to serious harm in bees.

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Pesticides cause bees brain damage, say scientists

9:03am Thursday 28th March 2013

Two new studies have highlighted a negative impact on bees' ability to learn following exposure to a combination of pesticides commonly used in agriculture.

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Syngenta urges EU to drop proposed pesticides controls

10:16am Friday 22nd February 2013

The Switzerland-based pesticide multinational Syngenta has urged the European Commission retract its proposal to restrict the use of neonicotinoid technology, claiming the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) report on the risks to bees from their use was “fundamentally flawed.”

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Garden centres remove pesticide linked to bee decline

9:18am Friday 22nd February 2013

Garden centres are the latest retailers to remove household products containing insecticides linked to bee decline from their shelves.

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Growers urged to register imported bees

8:00am Wednesday 30th January 2013

armers and growers are being urgently advised to comply with the law and register with Natural England, if they are using imported non-native bumblebees for commercial pollination.

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