The EPA has failed to respond to the NRDC’s Freedom of Information Act request for agency records concerning the toxicity of pesticides to bees, and now the NRDC is suing. The EPA fact sheet says of clothianidin, “It has the potential for toxic chronic exposure to honey bees, as well as other non-target pollinators through the translocation of clothianidin resides in nectar and pollen. In honey bees, the affects of this toxic chronic exposure may include lethal and/or sub-lethal effects in the larvae and reproductive effects on the queen.”The use of clothianidin and other insecticides of this class has “increased dramatically” over the past few years and they are now the most widely used group of insecticides in the United States.
Read more here about Colony Collapse Disorder and the NRDC court order directing the EPA to disclose its information about pesticides and bee toxicity…
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