neonicotinoids

Home Depot has announced that it is going to start requiring plant suppliers to label the plants that contain neonicotinoid pesticides on plants that they sell. This move is in response to honeybee decline/colony collapse. Other US companies are also going to require supplier to stop the use of...

It would seem academics are being sidelined by regulators and the pesticide industry even though their research shows legitimate concerns. From a BBC report "Pesticides linked to honeybee decline" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/29/crop-pesticides-honeybee-decline?newsfeed=true

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7778401/Mobile-phones-responsible-for-disappearance-of-honey-bee.html I thought this was very interesting what with all the ruckus about microwave transmission. No one could see this one coming.