EPA Discovers Honeybees' Killer

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When honeybees are interacting with this insecticide above 25ppb, the amount of pollinators and honey produced drops. This insecticide is widely common among farm fields, alluding to the reason why we lost half our honeybee population since WW2. This has forced the EPA to say "we may have to take action". No, you don't get it EPA, we want immediate action. If we don't get our pollinators back up to speed, there will be ecological consequences. Fewer plants get pollinated, causing fewer plants to reproduced, causing fewer plants for consumers to eat, causing more consumers to die, causing more predators to die. It's a resource competition scenario I don't want to think about.
 
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The bulk of that benefit would be in Ontario, particularly Southwestern Ontario, where corn and soybeans are the mainstay of the cash-crop economy.

Corn farmers who use neonics add 3.2 per cent to 3.6 per cent to their revenue nationally — with most benefit in Ontario, but with more cost than benefit in Quebec.
Soybean farmers who use neonics get 1.5 per cent to 2.1 per cent more revenue nationally because their fields yield more, that study says.
Reminder that the world's pollinator's are dying because some Canadian farmers earn 3.6% more yields.

How could this bee?
 
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Reminder that the world's pollinator's are dying because some Canadian farmers earn 3.6% more yields.

How could this bee?
Damn Canadians clubbing seals and killing bees and then pretending they are nicest people in the world.
 
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