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Possible Cure for Bee Killing Varroa Mite

 

SOURCE: Friday, 9 August, 2002, 13:25 GMT 14:25 UK   BBC News 
Fungi help combat honeybee killer

Varroa mites have devastated some honeybee colonies

 
Fungi could soon be helping beekeepers control a parasitic mite that before now has killed up to 70% of colonies.Research shows that the fungi can kill Varroajust as effectively as the chemicals currently used to keep populations [...]

Italy bans Pesticides linked to Bee Devastation

Press Release, Sept 19, 2008
Coalition against Bayer Dangers (Germany)
Italy bans Pesticides linked to Bee Devastation
Neonicotinoids now suspended in four European countries
The Italian government banned the use of several neonicotinoid pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees. The Ministero del Lavoro della Salute e delle Politiche Sociali issued an immediate suspension of [...]

Germany: Charge against Bayer´s Board of Management

Press Release, August 25, 2008
Coalition against BAYER Dangers (Germany)
Pesticides cause mass death of bees
Germany: Charge against Bayer´s Board of Management
The German Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought a charge against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer Board of Management, with the Public Prosecutor in Freiburg (south-western Germany). The group accuses Bayer of marketing dangerous pesticides [...]

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