Soybean Growers…Glyphosate is Safe
Agriculture and Green Industry Groups Reaffirm Glyphosate Safety & Public Benefits Following Court Oral Arguments Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2022. Groups representing…
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Glyphosate could harm Bacteria Insects Rely On
The saw-toothed grain beetle (Oryzaephilus surinamensis) on oat flakes. Credit: Julian Kiefer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Glyphosate dangerous to beetles as well as plants…
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It’s not the Glyphosate, it is the Inert Ingredients
Research surprise unveils how common herbicide kills bees Marc Heller, E&E News Reporter A buff-tailed bumblebee forages on a head of red clover flowers. Eduardo…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Round Up – Could This Commonly Used Herbicide Could Also Be Having Adverse Effects on The Health and Behavior of Honey Bees.
By: Michael Balter Is one of the world’s most widely used herbicides a danger not only to annoying weeds, but also to honeybees? While…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Weed Killer Residues Found in 98 Percent of Canadian Honey Samples.
Carey Gillam As U.S. regulators continue to dance around the issue of testing foods for residues of glyphosate weed killers, government scientists in Canada…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Glyphosate Affects the Larval Development of Honey Bees Depending on the Susceptibility of Colonies
Diego E. Vázquez, Natalia Ilina, Eduardo A. Pagano, Jorge A. Zavala, Walter M. Farina Published: October 9, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205074 As the main agricultural insect…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Glyphosate Keeps Showing Up in Honey Bee Health Studies. Maybe it’s not as Benign as We Think?
By: Karen Fleur Tofti-Tufarelli The royal jelly-producing glands of bees exposed to Round-up® experience premature aging, according to a Brazilian study published online. Round-up®…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – FDA Finds Glyphosate in Honey. What Now?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found residues of the weed killer glyphosate in samples of U.S. honey, according to documents obtained by the consumer advocacy group U.S. Right…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bees Like Sugar and Fungicides, or Sugar and Herbicides Better Than Just Sugar. No Wonder We Have Troubles Out There.
CHICAGO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers at…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Glyphosate, The Active Ingredient In Monsanto’s Herbicide Roundup, Has Been Added To California’s Prop 65 List. Is Honey In Danger?
Alan Harman Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, has been added to California’s Prop 65 list, meaning that glyphosate is “known to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – FDA Yet To Define ‘Natural’, or Not. Does This Count For Honey, Too?
Megan Poinski @meganpoinski, from Food Dive A Food Dive Brief: A federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit filed against General Mills, which claimed…
Read MoreSome Honey Samples Found With Herbicide Residues.
Alan Harman Residues of the main ingredient in Monsanto’s flagship herbicide Roundup have been found in honey in Iowa, sparking an immediate lawsuit. The…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – EU Decides Not To Decide On Using Roundup.
Alan Harman The European Union punted and ran over the continued use glyphosate after EU countries failed to make a decision on a new…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The EU Can’t Decide Yes or No to Glyphosate
Alan Harman The European Union Appeals Committee failed to make a ruling on the continued use of glyphosate, throwing the decision whether to extend…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – No Wonder! 11 Billion Pounds of Glyphosate Have Been Applied in the Last 10 Years.
Some 71.6% of the total volume of glyphosate sprayed worldwide over the 40 years to 2014 has been sprayed in just the last 10…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Old Herbicides Used Because The New Ones Don’t Work. Bad News.
Dicamba herbicide drift onto plants growing adjacent to farm fields causes significant delays in flowering, as well as reduced flowering, of those plants, and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Study Finds Glyphosate and Acetamiprid to Have Relatively Low Toxicity for Honey Bees
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and Mississippi State University tested 42 commonly used pesticides in a realistic field…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – EPA To Look At Glyphosate, Atrazine Effects On Endangered Species
By Andy Szal, in the Digital Reporter A settlement between an environmental advocacy group and federal regulators will require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
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Pollinator Habitat Is Disappearing At Rates Usually Reserved For Descriptions Of Amazon Rain Deforestation Michele Colopy Pollinator Stewardship Council If we are to address…
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