South Liverpool Bees, free swarm collections in the Liverpool area.

Lecture by Professor Dave G oulson

held on Wednesday 18th March 2015

at Plymouth University

Entitled

"Bees, Pesticides and Politics"

the impact of neonicotinoids

on UK bumblebees

our goal

is to educate people as to the serious problems man has caused to the envioroment. Humans have for decades tried to eliminate insects with the use of insecticides to increase crop yields, unfurtunately this also causing Bee colonies to colapse....

Bees polinate our crops so if we do nothing to protect them our crops will not get polinated, this causing a decrease in crop yields being the exact opposite to what insecticides where designed for?

please join the fight to have neonicotinoids banned.

Neonicotinoids are pesticides in agricultural use that control pests such as aphids and grubs. The poison gets into the pollen and renders it deadly to bees and other pollinators. Neonicotinoids are banned in several countries due to links with bee deaths. Please help to ban the use of neonics on crops.

Neonicotinoids, especially seed treatments of imidacloprid and clothianidin on arable crops, have become of increasing concern to beekeepers and bee researchers in recent years with many of them suspecting that they may be connected to current bee declines. These concerns have led to partial bans on the use of some neonicotinoids for specific crops in several European countries, including France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. Bees are already facing sharp declines in their numbers and need help

Neonicotinoids – “systemic” chemicals, which are absorbed by plants and spread to every part of them – were first introduced in 1991 and, within two decades, had grown to comprise a third of all pesticide sales, in use in over 120 countries. Over the last few years, however, they have been increasingly accused of killing honey bees.