Hi,
Bees are small. The average bee is smaller than a half-inch. But the threats they face — and the companies imposing those threats — seem larger than life.
Right now, bees are navigating minefields of pesticides available on Amazon, and it's driving populations to dangerous lows — like that of the Western bumblebee’s 93% decline in just 20 years.1,2
If we’re going to get this retail giant to stop selling bee-killing pesticides, it’ll take the voices of people like you speaking up to protect the best little pollinators around. When bees see flowers, they see landing pads where they can gather nectar and pollinate plants of all shapes and sizes. Some bees — like the squash bee — even see flowers as the perfect crash pad, taking naps on the flowers they land on.
But all too often those flowers are laced with bees’ fatal foes. Bee-killing pesticides are lurking around every corner — and one study even found them on half of all sampled plants.2
And when they land on one of the many bee-killing pesticide coated flowers, they’re interacting with neurotoxic chemicals that slowly kill bees, poison baby bees' brains, and diminish bees' ability to learn or forage for food.3,4
As bee populations drop to dangerous lows, we know that Amazon can make a difference. If the company’s going to take bee-killing pesticides off its site, we’ll need to show support from as many Americans as we can. Our bee populations are in rapid decline. One in 4 native bee species is imperiled, Western bumblebees are on the brink of collapse, and honeybees are hurting as well.5
Bees already carry the weight of maintaining our ecosystems’ biodiversity on their little shoulders. They’re responsible for pollinating 80% of our flowering plants — all the while, they’re juggling the triple threat of bee-killing pesticides, habitat loss and climate change.6
It’s time to lighten their load — but to convince our country’s largest retailer, we’ll need your voice. Thank you,
The Environment America team.
References : - Matthew Chayes, “Insecticides found in about 30% of Long Island groundwater samples, report says,” Newsday, January 24, 2020.
- Pesticide Research Institute, “Pilot Study on Neonicotinoids in Bee-Friendly Flowers,” May 21, 2014.
- Roni Dengler, “Neonicotinoid pesticides are slowly killing bees,” PBS, June 29, 2017.
- “Pesticides impair baby bee brain development,” Science Daily, March 3, 2020.
- Maryellen Kennedy Duckett, "Nature needs us to act," National Geographic, March 4, 2020.
- Communications and Publishing, “The Buzz on Native Bees,” USGS, June 15, 2015.
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