When I shared some interesting facts about bees recenly, Denise pointed me to this online petition to save the honeybee. The petition is calling for the banning of neonicotinoids which is a type of pesticide which was first used in the 1990s which co-insides with when the mass bee disappearances started occurring.
Neonicotinoids work as an [...]
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Back to the Bees
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 20th 2009
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It is all About Bees
I am currently reading What on Earth Happened?… In Brief (the planet life and people from the big bang to the present day). It is full of interesting facts and today I learned some interesting facts about bees, I had no idea there were so many different species of bee.
Bees descended from wasps and emerged [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2009
