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Bees: Pesticide restrictions must be extended to wheat - new Friends of the Earth report
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<blockquote data-quote="Brisel" data-source="post: 3349590" data-attributes="member: 166"><p>That sidesteps the issue. Would FOE be prepared to acknowledge and participate in an impact assessment i.e. what the alternatives are?</p><p></p><p>Yellowbelly has a valid point. The loss of osr to flea beetle means there is less osr grown now in favour of less open flowering crops. Who is the real loser in this? Some disorientated bees or all pollinating insects? I host 48 hives here for someone who has 650 hives in total. Osr is the difference between him being a professional beekeeper and an amateur one. Last year he made 29 tonnes of honey, 16 of which came from oilseed rape crops. He would rather see the same area of osr grown with neonic seed dressings and risk some bee losses instead of half the area grown without.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brisel, post: 3349590, member: 166"] That sidesteps the issue. Would FOE be prepared to acknowledge and participate in an impact assessment i.e. what the alternatives are? Yellowbelly has a valid point. The loss of osr to flea beetle means there is less osr grown now in favour of less open flowering crops. Who is the real loser in this? Some disorientated bees or all pollinating insects? I host 48 hives here for someone who has 650 hives in total. Osr is the difference between him being a professional beekeeper and an amateur one. Last year he made 29 tonnes of honey, 16 of which came from oilseed rape crops. He would rather see the same area of osr grown with neonic seed dressings and risk some bee losses instead of half the area grown without. [/QUOTE]
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