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Thousands participate in bee swarm actions across the country on Valentine\u2019s week<\/i> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, February 12, 2013) \u201d\u201d This week, over 27,000 people coast-to-coast are swarming Lowe\u2019s and Home Depot stores to support the bees that pollinate our flowers for Valentine\u2019s Day. In a coalition campaign called the Bee Week of Action, Beyond Pesticides, Friends of the Earth and allies are delivering more than half a million petition signatures and Valentines asking these retailers to show bees some love<\/a> by taking off their shelves pesticides shown to harm and kill bees \u2014and garden plants treated with these pesticides.\"ShowBeesSomeLove\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides is partnering with Friends of the Earth U.S., Beelieve, Beyond Toxics, Center for Food Safety, CREDO Mobilize, Friends of the Earth Canada, Northwest Center for Pesticide Alternatives, Organic Consumers Association, Pesticide Action Network, SumOfUs and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation to turn out activists across the country, including larger actions in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston area, and Eugene, Ore. For a listing of cities participating in action, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

This national week of action is a part of a retail campaign that is calling on retailers to stop selling neonicotinoids \u2014the most widely used class of pesticides in the world\u2014 due to a growing body of science indicating that the pesticides are a key factor in recent global bee deaths. Bees and other pollinators, essential for the two-thirds of the food crops humans eat everyday, are dwindling worldwide. Last year, U.S. beekeepers reported losing 40-100 percent of their hives, and they are likely facing another winter of historic bee die-offs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe science shows that neonicotinoid pesticides play a significant role in the declining health of bees and other beneficial organisms. It is therefore imperative that action be taken to protect these creatures, given the lack of action at the federal regulatory level,\u201d said Nichelle Harriott, staff scientist at \u00a0Beyond Pesticides.<\/p>\n

A groundbreaking pilot study<\/a> released last summer found that many bee-friendly garden plants sold at Home Depot and Lowe\u2019s contain neonicotinoid pesticides with no warning to consumers. The European Union\u2019s two-year ban <\/a>on the most widely used neonicotinoids went into effect in December. In January, the European Food Safety Authority cited evidence that two neonicotinoids, acetamiprid and imadacloprid, \u201cmay affect the developing human nervous system<\/a>\u201d of children, and it recommended further restricting their use.<\/p>\n

More than half a million Americans have signed petitions demanding that Lowe\u2019s and Home Depot immediately stop selling off-the-shelf neonicotinoid insecticides for home garden use. Home Depot and Lowe\u2019s have been asked to stop selling plants pre-treated with the pesticides, make third-party certified organic starts and plants available, and educate customers on their policies to protect bees and other pollinators. \u00a0To sign the petition, click here<\/a>. In response to revelations that home garden plants sold in their stores contain neonicotinoids, Home Depot said they would look into the matter and be in touch with environmental groups. They have yet to respond to requests for a meeting. Lowe\u2019s has not made any public statements or responded to meeting requests.<\/p>\n

Neonicotinoids are a class of insecticides that share a common mode of action that affect the central nervous system of insects, resulting in paralysis and death. These systemic pesticides, which \u00a0move through the plant\u2019s vascular system and express themselves through pollen and nectar, \u00a0include imidacloprid<\/a>, acetamiprid<\/a>, clothianidin<\/a>, dinotefuran<\/a>, nithiazine, thiacloprid<\/a> and thiamethoxam<\/a>. A growing body of science has implicated neonicotinoids, which are applied to or \u00a0incorporated into seeds for agricultural, ornamental \u00a0and garden plants, as a key factor in recent global bee die-offs<\/a>. Beekeepers across the country reported losses of 40-90 percent of their bees last winter.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has delayed action on neonicotinoid pesticides until 2018, despite growing evidence that they are a key factor in bee decline, and more than a million public comments urging swift protection for bees. EPA has made recent labeling changes<\/a> to try to reflect pollinator concerns, but beekeepers widely agree that they do not go far enough in bee protection. Additionally, although beekeepers have voiced their concerns<\/a> about sublethal exposures, EPA has only taken steps to address acute bee poisonings, which it says are primarily caused by dust plumes from seed coatings dislodged from seed planters. Manufacturers are working to reformulate the seed coating technology to control dust, but EPA has made no move to restrict the use of the chemicals which are conclusively demonstrated to cause bee deaths through sublethal exposure.<\/p>\n

Last March, Beyond Pesticides, \u00a0Center for Food Safety, beekeepers, environmental and consumer groups filed a lawsuit<\/a> in Federal District Court against the EPA for its failure to protect pollinators from dangerous pesticides. The lawsuit seeks to suspend the registrations of the neonicotinoids clothianidin and thiamethoxam, which have repeatedly been identified as highly toxic to honey bees. \u00a0The suit challenges EPA\u2019s oversight of these bee-killing pesticides, as well as the agency\u2019s practice of \u201cconditional registration,\u201d which leave critical health and environmental questions unanswered, and labeling deficiencies. Despite this suit and other public concerns and efforts<\/a> regarding pesticides and the health of bees, EPA recently registered two new active ingredients, sulfoxaflor<\/a> and cyantraniliprole<\/a> \u2014 both known to be highly toxic to bees.<\/p>\n

In 2013, U.S. Representatives John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced the Save American\u2019s Pollinators Act<\/a>, which will suspend the use of neonics on bee-attractive plants until EPA reviews all of the available data, including field studies. Please tell your member of Congress<\/a> to support the Save American\u2019s Pollinator Act.<\/p>\n

For the most recent action being taken to protect honey bees, see the Beyond Pesticides BEE Protective<\/a> \u00a0campaign which works with national and local groups to protect honey bees and other pollinators from pesticides and contaminated landscapes.<\/p>\n

Join us April 11-12 for Beyond Pesticides\u2019 <\/em>32nd<\/sup> National Pesticide Forum<\/a>, in Portland, OR on \u201cAdvancing Sustainable Communities: People, pollinators, and practices\u201d which will focus<\/em> on solutions to the decline of pollinators and other beneficials; strengthening organic agriculture; improving farmworker protection and agricultural justice; and creating healthy buildings, schools and homes. Space is limited so <\/em><\/i>register now<\/i><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Beyond Pesticides is partnering with Friends of the Earth U.S., Beelieve, Beyond Toxics, Center for Food Safety, CREDO Mobilize, Friends of the Earth Canada, Northwest Center for Pesticide Alternatives, Organic Consumers Association, Pesticide Action Network, SumOfUs and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation to turn out activists across the country, including larger actions in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston area, and Eugene, Ore. For a listing of cities participating in action, click here. 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