Insights and Stories on Bees

Quebec heading toward neonic limits on crops

Nov. 23, 2015 at 2:35 am CST

The Quebec government is preparing consultations ahead of a wide legislative swath through the province’s pesticide sector, to limit farmers’ use of neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments and certain other pesticides. Environment Minister David Heurtel on Sunday released the province’s pesticide strategy for 2015 to 2018, mapping out the Couillard government’s […]

El Nino strengthening, to be among biggest on record: WMO

Nov. 16, 2015 at 5:11 pm CST

By Tom Miles

Study of bumblebee decline points to climate ‘vise’

Jul. 9, 2015 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

For direct-farm marketers, Alberta is a great place to operate

Jul. 3, 2015 at 9:42 am CDT

By Lorraine Stevenson

Ont. books drop in bee death ‘incidents’ at planting

Jun. 18, 2015 at 9:01 pm CDT

By Staff

Tiny number of bees account for most crop pollination, study finds

Jun. 17, 2015 at 7:00 pm CDT

Oslo | Reuters — Just two per cent of wild bee species do almost 80 per cent of their work in pollinating crops, according to a study on Tuesday that outlined simple measures for farmers to attract star insects to safeguard food production. The international report, based on 90 studies […]

By alister-doyle

Pearce: GFO goes informative rather than inflammatory

Jun. 1, 2015 at 5:40 pm CDT

It’s not that farmers in Ontario aren’t frustrated and angry concerning legislation aimed at curbing the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments. They are. However, during a protest Friday in front of Ontario Deputy Premier Deb Matthews’ riding office in London, executives with the Grain Farmers of Ontario and roughly 35 […]

By Ralph Pearce

U.S. EPA proposing temporary pesticide-free zones for honeybees

May. 28, 2015 at 6:24 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. environmental regulators on Thursday proposed a rule that would create temporary pesticide-free zones to protect commercial honeybees, which are critical to food production and have been dying off at alarming rates. The restrictions are aimed at protecting bees from “pesticides that are acutely toxic” to them, and […]

By Carey Gillam

U.S. honeybee losses soar over last year, USDA finds

May. 13, 2015 at 1:47 pm CDT

Reuters — Honeybees, critical agents in the pollination of key U.S. crops, disappeared at a staggering rate over the last year, according to a new government report that comes as regulators, environmentalists and agribusinesses try to reverse the decline. Losses of managed honeybee colonies hit 42.1 per cent from April […]

By Carey Gillam

Lowe’s to phase out sales of neonics by 2019

Apr. 9, 2015 at 7:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Home improvement chain Lowe’s will stop selling a type of pesticide suspected of causing a decline in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, following a few U.S. retailers who took similar steps last year. The pesticides known as neonicotinoids (neonics) are sold by agrichemical […]

By Reuters

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