Saturday, 6 April 2013

MPs call for bee-killing pesticide ban

Dead Bee

Members of Parliament's Commons Environmental Audit Committee have called for a suspension in the use of chemicals linked to the disappearance of bee colonies.


Wild bee species help to pollinate around one third of the world's crop production, but their numbers are falling fast -- MPs say that two thirds of these species have declined in population in the UK.


By: Duncan Geere,


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/6/bee-pesticide-ban

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