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3 New Studies Link Bee Decline To Bayer Pesticide

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | March 29, 2014

It's springtime, and farmers throughout the Midwest and South are preparing to plant corn—and lots of it. The USDA projects this year's corn crop will cover 94 million acres, the most in 68 years. [...] Nearly all of that immense stand of corn will be planted with seeds treated with neonicotinoid pesticides produced by the German chemical giant Bayer. Read More »

Beepocalypse Redux: Honeybees Are Still Dying — And We Still Don’t Know Why

Bryan Walsh | Time | May 7, 2013

More than five years after it was first reported, colony-collapse disorder is still killing honeybees around the world. If scientists can't pinpoint the cause, the economic and environmental damage could be immense Read More »

Can A Smart Beehive Network Of Open-Source Hives Help Stop The Bee Apocalypse?

Ben Schiller | Fast Company | November 18, 2013

The Open Source Beehives Project aims to lower the barriers to backyard beekeeping with simple, low-cost hive designs. With bees dying by the millions, they need to spread the buzz. Read More »

Controversial Pesticides Killing Wild Birds As Well As Bees

Staff Writer | The Telegraph | July 9, 2014

Controversial pesticides blamed for the loss of bee colonies may also be having much wider environmental effects and damaging wild bird populations, research has shown.
Scientists in the Netherlands linked declines in farmland bird species, such as starlings and tree sparrows, with a neonicotinoid chemical used to protect crops from insect pests...

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Did Scientists Just Solve The Bee Collapse Mystery?

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | May 20, 2014

It's a hard-knock life, scouring the landscape for pollen to sustain a beehive. Alight upon the wrong field, and you might encounter fungicides, increasingly used on corn and soybean crops, and shown to harm honeybees at tiny levels. [...] Read More »

Follow The Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies Are Spinning The Bee Crisis

Michele Simon | Civil Eats | April 28, 2014

If you like to eat, then you should care about what’s happening to bees. Two-thirds of our food crops require pollination–the very foods that we rely on for healthy eating–such as apples, berries, and almonds, just to name a few. That’s why the serious decline in bee populations is getting more attention, with entire campaigns devoted to saving them. Read More »

Scientists Discover What’s Killing The Bees And It’s Worse Than You Thought

Todd Woody | Quartz | July 25, 2013

As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought. Read More »

The Case Of The Vanishing Bees

Tom Turner | Earthjustice | May 2, 2014

Pesticides & The Perfect Crime: In the widespread bee die-offs, bees often just vanish. One beekeeper calls it the Perfect Crime—no bodies, no murder weapon, no bees. What's happening to the bees? Read More »

US Honeybee Population Suffers 'Unsustainable' Death Rate Over The Winter

Staff Writer | RT | May 16, 2014

Nearly one quarter of the US honeybee population died over the winter, according to an annual survey. Beekeepers report the losses remain higher than they consider sustainable, and the death rate could soon affect the country’s food supply. Read More »

USDA Reports Honeybee Death Rate Too High For Long-Term Survival

Staff Writer | EcoWatch | May 16, 2014

Honeybees in the U.S. are dying at a rate too high to ensure their long-term survival, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Read More »