Resources - Pollinator Health and Food Security
"Bee-utiful" - photo courtesy of Catia Juliana, photographer
RESOURCES - from Beyond Toxics
- Beyond Toxics blogs about the decline of bees and the dangers of neonicotinoid pesticides
- Consumer Pesticide Products with Neonics Sold in The U.S. (to save honey bees, don't use in your garden!)
INTERVIEWS
- Lisa Arkin and Eugene City Councilor George Brown were interviewed about the City of Eugene resolution to ban neonics on city property (Jefferson Exchange Radio hour on March 10th, 2014; missed it? Hear the full show).
- Hear the 2014 KPNW radio report from Stu Allen interviewing City Counselor Claire Syrett (mp3 file requires audio player plug-in; audio courtesy of KPNW Radio Eugene)
- Lisa Arkin interviewed on Jefferson Exchange Radio: Campaigning For A Ban On Neonicotinoids (aired November 20, 2013; mp3 audio opens and plays within a new web page)
- Hear Lisa Arkin interviewed on Jefferson Public Radio about the plight of honey bees and National Honey Bee Day (aired Aug. 15, 2013; mp3 audio opens and plays within a new web page)
- STUDY: TREATED PLANTS SOLD TO CONSUMERS KILL BEES - KPTV (Portland) News story includes interview with Don Francis, Beyond Toxics Advisory Board member and business owner, EcoTech, LLC
RESOURCES - Creating pollinator-friendly gardens
- Flower Fragrances That Attract Bees and Butterflies to Your Garden
- Bees and Honey: Creating Pollinator Gardens
RESOURCES, cont.
Reports
- 2014 Gardeners Beware Report (Friends of The Earth)
- Scientists Release Landmark Worldwide Assessment Detailing Effects of Bee-Killing Pesticides (June 24, 2014)
- DRIPPING POISON: An Analysis of Neonicotinoid Insecticides in The Guttation Fluid of Growing Maize Plants - Dec. 2013 Report from Greenpeace (PDF)
- Friends of The Earth report: "Follow the Honey: 7 ways pesticide companies are spinning the bee crisis to protect profits"
- Friends of the Earth report (Summer 2013): Gardeners Beware: Bee-Toxic Pesticides Found in "Bee-Friendly" Plants Sold at Garden Centers Nationwide
- The Impact of the Nation’s Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds (American Bird Conservancy, March 2013)
- Are Neonicotinoids Killing Bees? (2012 Xerces Society Report on Bees and neonicotinoids)
VIDEO
- VIDEO: "Killing Bees: Are Government and Industry Responsible?" (27 min.; "Earth Focus" - LinkTV)
- VIDEO: 'Colony Collapse Disorder' Threatens Bees, US Agriculture (13 min.; "Earth Focus" - LinkTV)
- VIDEO: "Chasing bees: The search for the Western bumblebee" (YouTube)
- VIDEO: "Troubling Beehavior - Colony Collapse Disorder in Oregon" (YouTube)
Editorials
- Risking Another Silent Spring - June 30, 2014 NY Times Editorial
- Register-Guard GUEST VIEWPOINT: Pesticides threaten bees’ health — and ours by Philip Smith, Oregon Sustainable Beekeepers, owner of Blessed Bee
Blogs
- "Bee-friendly" Plants? Think Again - BLOG by Paul Towers, Media & Organizing Director, Pesticide Action Network
Articles
- Read the latest report on neonicotinoids:
"Midwestern Waters Are Full of Bee-Killing Pesticides"
By Tom Philpott, Mother Jones - Honeybee shortage threatens crop pollination in Europe By Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent, BBC News (Jan. 8, 2014)
- Traffic fumes make honeybees unable to recognise flower scent, study shows / Scientists find reactive pollutants in diesel make oilseed rape flowers 'smell' different, affecting bees' ability to find food - Damian Carrington, The Guardian, October 3, 2013
- R-G article: To bee or not to bee - Colony collapse threatens honeybees and plants they pollinate (see video below)
- Read the Friends of The Earth flyer for their Bee Action consumer campaign
- Bees crucial to many crops still dying at worrisome rate - USDA
BY CAREY GILLAM (May 15, 2014 Reuters News Service) - A Discussion About Neonicotinoids And Bee Losses with Randy Oliver and Walter Haefeker - The Organic View Show - January 19, 2014
- Plants for Native Bees in North America (Xerces Society)
- More Data Implicates Fungicides in Colony Collapse by Oregon blogger Madronna Holden (November 30, 2013)
- Are Neonicotinoids Too Big To Ban? By June Stoyer On April 10, 2013 - The Organic View (audio and video clips)
- Alternatives for consumers...Homemade Dormant Oil Spray for Fruit Trees by Amanda Flanigan, Demand Media
- More research explores the complexities of colony collapse disorder (CCD) and finds a contribution by fungicides, formerly thought to be safe for bees.
- Pesticides and Honey Bees: State of the Science
(May 2012 - Pesticide Action Network North America) - Fabulous report by American Bird Conservancy on birds and neonics
- Mother Jones article on bees
- NY Times: “2 Studies Point to Common Pesticide as a Culprit in Declining Bee Colonies“
- Eugene Register-Guard article: City tries to find pesticide substitute - Beekeepers and environmentalists say the use of one treatment may kill bees
- Join us in supporting this petition to BiMart and Jerry’s to stop selling bee killing neonicotinoid pesticides Petition to BiMart and Jerry’s
- Bee the Change: Tips & Tools For Protecting Honey Bees (PANNA)
- Honey Bee Haven, a joint project of Pesticide Action Network and Beyond Pesticides
- About bees (Bees 101)
- Fact Sheet on Imidacloprid (NCAP)
- Living on Earth reports: “EPA Under Fire for Bee Deaths“
- Please join us and commit to our “Honey Bee Friend pledge” (see above) to make Eugene more sustainable.
- Yet MORE evidence that pesticides are a key culprit in bee die-offs (Pesticide Action Network, North America)
Definitions
- What are neonicotinoids? (wikipedia)
FILMS
- Queen of the Sun, documentary film
- Vanishing of the Bees, documentary film
- More Than Honey, documentary film
-
Who Killed the Honey Bee?, BBC documentary
ORGANIZATIONS
- Background: The threat to bees
- Read about Consumer Products to Avoid
- Beyond Toxics blogs about the decline of bees and the dangers of neonicotinoids
- What are neonicotinoid pesticides?
- Read about the economics of saving bees: Bees by the numbers
- Gardeners Beware 2014 Report
- Read about Eugene, Oregon's ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, the first of it’s kind in the nation
