Insights and Stories on Bees

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

Nov. 16, 2015 at 5:11 pm CST

Geneva | Reuters — The El Nino weather pattern, a phenomenon associated with extreme droughts, storms and floods, is expected to strengthen before the end of the year and become one of the strongest on record, the United Nations’ weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said this […]

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

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

Ontario’s neonic limits tabled for public comment

Mar. 23, 2015 at 7:15 pm CDT

Proposed new controls on the use and sale of corn and soybean seed treated with neonicotinoid pesticides in Ontario are up for public comment between now and early May. The provincial government made its move Monday — three days ahead of a scheduled meeting between Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal and […]

By Staff

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