Colony losses to worsen if feds don’t nix neonics swiftly

Meanwhile, EU member countries acted quickly to approve regulations, ending all outdoor uses of these neonics by the end of this year.

While a ban on neonics will help beekeepers recover, PMRA proposes a three- to five-year phaseout period, allowing the use of harmful neonics to continue until at least 2022-2023, maybe longer.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash's Danika Perkinson

Opinion

BY Stéphan Leclerc and Andre Flys

December 13, 2018

We can no longer ignore the harmful effects of pesticide exposure on pollinator health. Last year, beekeepers in Ontario and Quebec suffered record overwinter colony losses: 45.7 per cent in Ontario and 30.3 per cent in Quebec....

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