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03/24/2017 / By Vicki Batts

56 percent of Maryland’s bees disappeared in 2016 as pollinator collapse accelerates

The decimation of bee populations is a national concern, but beekeepers in the state of Maryland have been hit especially hard by the wave of bee deaths. In 2016 alone, beekeepers in the mid-Atlantic state faced a devastating loss equating to more than 56 percent of their bee colonies, according to the Bee Informed Partnership […]

01/14/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Court allows seeds to continue to be sprayed with bee-toxic pesticides

At the end of November, a judge from the Northern District of California delivered a crushing blow to our nation’s beekeepers, and effectively approved of the EPA policies that will allow seeds to be coated with bee-toxic pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, or neonics for short. These pesticides, which can persist in soil and water with […]

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