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Pesticides, the Honey Bee and Us

June 18, 2013 by MyPureWater 3 Comments

HoneyBeeIn recent years there have been many news reports of the drastic decline in the honey bee numbers.  Why is this significant?  Honey bees are the best at pollinating plants, and thus, have a key role in our food chain functioning normally.

After DDT was banned due to toxicity concerns several decades back, the hunt was on for other pesticides. From this research another group of insecticides, Neonicotinoids, has taken front stage.  These insecticides are largely the work of Bayer in Germany and were the first group of new insecticides in more than 50 years.

Initially the Neonicotinoid insecticides were considered safe, but then reports started to surface that the Neonicotinoids were having an adverse impact of bee populations.  In 2008 the German Government revoked the registration of Clothianidin, a Neonicotinoid, for use on seed corn after an incident that resulted in the death of millions of nearby honey bees.  European Governments are increasingly looking to limit the use of this pesticide for this reason and a two-year European ban was announced in April 2013 for three members of the Neonicotinoid insecticide group.

Even more troubling, is that, if used regularly, well over 90% of the active ingredient accumulates in the soil and leaches into the groundwater, where it persists for years.  (http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/06/pesticides-cause-more-damage-believed?et_cid=3317240&et_rid=210265442&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.laboratoryequipment.com%2fnews%2f2013%2f06%2fpesticides-cause-more-damage-believed)

In the groundwater and on grain, Neonicotinoid insecticides are having an impact on bird populations.  This has caused some environmentalists to call on the EPA to ban neonics.

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The news doesn’t get any better.  A 2012 study by Japanese scientists concluded that these persistent, systemic insecticides “May be a potent risk to human health” and more recently University of Sussex biologist Professional David Goulson completed a study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, and reported that the harm to the bees may be “just the tip of the iceberg”.

The fact is that scientific fact-gathering takes time and it takes even longer for governments to act.  The Europeans are already starting to move against Neonicotinoid insecticides.  The US EPA has not acted but in March 2013 a coalition of beekeepers and other environmental groups sued the EPA for performing inadequate toxicity evaluations and allowing registration of the pesticides to stand on insufficient industry studies.

Neonicotinoid insecticides are not on the list of tests required under the EPA Safe Drinking Water Act standards and so are no regularly tested for by water municipalities in the USA.

As for all of us water consumers – insist on drinking distilled water.  A Pure Water distiller will provide your insurance against so many pollutants that we know too little about that may be in our drinking water.

Filed Under: Water News Tagged With: Distilled water, distillers, Honey bee, Pesticides, pure water, Water distilled

Comments

  1. Frank says

    June 19, 2013 at 9:20 am

    Well,

    in short…… I’m a certified beekeper, registered in Ohio ….. and working on study with university….and my BEES are drinking a 99.999999% Pure water with sugar and loving it! —- just nice —

    got new babies before everyone in club – (also beeking club member)

    Reply
  2. Courtney Meder says

    June 21, 2013 at 10:36 am

    Just yesterday in Oregon approx 25,000 bees were found dead in a parking lot near some trees that were recently sprayed with pesticides. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/bees-dead-oregon-target-_n_3472870.html?utm_source=concierge&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=sailthru%2Bslider%2B

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  3. invadingmelody says

    November 9, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    they are finding cell towers as a major player in the downfall of the bees

    Reply

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