Thursday, March 22, 2012

Beekeepers seek clothianidin ban




Beekeepers and environmental groups are petitioning the United States Environment Protection Agency to ban clothianidin.

The pesticide gained conditional approval from Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency in May of last year to be used to control insect pests of potatoes, grapes, pome and stone fruits and turf.

The beekeepers claim the pesticide is killing their bees.

The EPA says it has received about 1.2 million comments from people, most of them in support of the petition.