Bee-killing pesticides use banned

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Bee-killing pesticides have been banned for emergency use in the UK for the first time in five years after the government rejected an application from the National Farmers’ Union and British Sugar.

"The neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB, which is used on sugar beet, is highly toxic to bees and has the potential to kill off populations of the insect. It is banned in the EU but the UK has provisionally agreed to its emergency use every year since leaving the bloc. It combats a plant disease known as virus yellows by killing the aphid that spreads it."

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...e-pesticide-is-sweet-as-honey-for-pollinators
 
There is a lot of talk in regards supporting farmers with alternatives, what are those alternatives ? Those farmers in the EU have already been living with this new regime, what have they been doing and what effect on production or has it moved elsewhere ?
 
If farmers are banned from using the neonicotinoid treated seeds then their only option is to spray their crops instead.
So make sure you are on their list of contacts so that they notify you on crop spraying days
 
Yep. Just wait for everyone to realise that the seed treatment was the lesser of two evils... Spraying will be bad for so many insects and thus all the species which depend on them- birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, fish.
 

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