Image: A Honey Bee in the Act
Theme Animals - H for Honey Bee
honey bees with elements of a destroyer
to humans owing to its deadly stings
but as pollinators for flowers as a savior
a provider of total food of its making
often debated as a subject of ridicule
honey as food in storage for the generation
but is it created out of vomit or poo
that a forager bee regurgitates on its return
a house bee through process of trophallaxis
turning the raw nectar to sweet tasting honey
but a matter of more direct concern
are bee safe pesticides not very safe after all
For A to Z Challenge: H
Bee safe pesticides. Good that there is a concern for bees and pesticide makers are making efforts to make them safe for bees. If still they are not safe and if social media and professional media makes campaigns there will be more efforts. About my blog on management. For my A to Z 2019 blog, Industrial Engineering and Operations Management - Distinction and Combination turns out to be the most useful post. It has 266 page views so far. I expect 1000 page views by April end.
ReplyDeleteYes. What you say is correct. I came across this news.
ReplyDeleteMario Aguilera, UC San Diego
Thursday, April 11, 2019
A series of tests conducted over several years by scientists at the University of California San Diego focused on better investigating the effects of this chemical. They have shown for the first time that Sivanto, developed by Bayer CropScience AG and first registered for commercial use in 2014, could in fact pose a range of threats to honeybees depending on seasonality, bee age and use in combination with common chemicals such as fungicides.
The study, led by former UC San Diego postdoctoral fellow Simone Tosi, now at ANSES, University Paris Est, and Biological Sciences Professor James Nieh, is published April 10 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/bee-safe-pesticide-is-not-safe