Review of Bee Health

What It Means to Lose Neonicotinoid-Treated Seeds: Loss of Crops

August 17, 2017

Editor’s Note: See, Banning Neonicotinoids is an Environmental Catastrophe and Assessment from the French Ministry of Agriculture on Bee Deaths: Varroa is Enemy #1.

From: The Times of India

England wheat area falls by 2.5 percent – ministry

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Farmers in the east of England have cut back rapeseed plantings partly due to problems controlling cabbage stem flea beetle, crop analysts have said.

Curbs on the use of a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids have led to problems controlling the beetles. The EU has restricted their use to protect bees.

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