[News] UK government allows use of pesticide that kills bees.

[Raleigh Chopper]

Bee keepers will re-home a nest if it is accessible. Unfortunately the majority of the nests cant be reached easily or cost effectively. They are often in captivity walls or inside chimneys stacks for example.

Just a question, if people are thinking of keeping bees and have a ready to go beehive could they call a company like yours and say give me a call when you have a swarm to deal with.
I have an allotment and thinking of learning to keep Bees, I want 2 hives and going to surround them with lavender.

 

[banjo]

More left wing nonsense.

Hilarious & upsetting that so many people have shared & believed this rubbish. The real story is that the EU and U.K. are temporarily allowing horrible pesticide on single non-flowering crops.

Buzz off.

 

[blue-shifted]

WTF is it with our idiotic government?

Any sort of pesticide like this won't just affect the specific crops its given to, it will cause general damage to the wildlife

Signed.

We need to farm more sustainably

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Just a question, if people are thinking of keeping bees and have a ready to go beehive could they call a company like yours and say give me a call when you have a swarm to deal with.
I have an allotment and thinking of learning to keep Bees, I want 2 hives and going to surround them with lavender.

That would be fine.

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Crawley 3 Leeds 0

 

[JC Footy Genius]

more racist bullshit, not like you

I’m surprised you aren’t extolling this as one of the benefits of Brexit, taking back control of our poisons, or some such bullshit.

I know right? It’s not like that there’s a plethora of evidence suggesting bees are the single most important animal on the planet... bloody tree hugging hippies caring about the future of our planet! Am I right?!?

Sheesh, one little Bees lives matter joke .... No idea why so many on the left are viewed as humourless twats.

 

[GT49er]

This is something Mogg was hoping would happen post Brexit; shortsighted foolishness.

How does this work with regards to the new EU trade deal. Will crops used with these chemicals be able to be exported to the EU?

Presumably not, as EU countries have made similar emergency rules for a limited use of this pesticide.

There's always a balance to be struck in these things - bees need protecting, so do crops. Are there sufficient reasons for introducing this temporary emergency measure? I don't know - and I certainly don't know enough to 'know' if they're making a wrong decision here - so I won't be signing the petition.

 

[vegster]

Thanks for highlighting this. There’s been a drive in recent years to encourage bees...this is a huge step backwards.

If only the Pro-Bee lobby had donated to the Tory Party ?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tate-lyle-brexit-trade-eu-conservatives-greenpeace-a9661651.html

 

[vegster]

WTF is it with our idiotic government?

Any sort of pesticide like this won't just affect the specific crops its given to, it will cause general damage to the wildlife

Signed.

We need to farm more sustainably

The official line was once we leave the EU we will maintain and increase our standards of environmental protection...... that went well didn't it ?

 

[lawros left foot]

Sheesh, one little Bees lives matter joke .... No idea why so many on the left are viewed as humourless twats.

It’s strange, I really laugh at stuff that’s funny, I even laugh at jokes against myself, atm I’m laughing at Dirty Leeds, but, according to you I have no sense of humour because I didn’t find your quite pathetic post funny.

I didn’t even realise it was meant to be funny.

Oh well.

 

[rogersix]

Sheesh, one little Bees lives matter joke .... No idea why so many on the left are viewed as humourless twats.

fuk me you're funny

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Presumably not, as EU countries have made similar emergency rules for a limited use of this pesticide.

There's always a balance to be struck in these things - bees need protecting, so do crops. Are there sufficient reasons for introducing this temporary emergency measure? I don't know - and I certainly don't know enough to 'know' if they're making a wrong decision here - so I won't be signing the petition.

It's like no one read the link https://deframedia.blog.gov.uk/2021...ntrols-for-emergency-pesticide-authorisation/ or did but just want to parrot the usual anti-Brexit crap or conspiracies about Tory donors.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Good to see the BLM movement taking on new causes

A jokes a joke
But I think you've touched a nerve slightly, what with all that's going on in the world today.
People need to get out and exercise, explore nature as so to speak.
They'll feel the need to see positive things going all around them.
Bees being one of them, I guess a positive of spring and summer to come in 2021.

For me up the allotment, they're a glorious sight.

 

[Chicken Run]

Environment secretary George Eustice has agreed to the use of a product containing the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam to treat certain crops this year in an effort to protect it from a virus.

Setting out conditions for the “limited and controlled” use of the pesticide, officials said the minister had agreed an emergency authorisation of it for up to 120 days after British Sugar and the National Farmers Union had lobbied the government.

But the Wildlife Trusts said neonicotinoids pose a significant environmental risk, particularly to bees and other pollinators.

Taking to Twitter, they said: “Bad news for bees: The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union to agree the use of a highly damaging pesticide.

“The government know the clear harm that neonicotinoid pesticides cause to bees and other pollinators and just three years ago supported restrictions on them across the European Union.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...ing-pesticide-being-reintroduced-in-uk/10/01/

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[JC Footy Genius]

fuk me you're funny

Your chat up line needs a lot of work.

 

[beorhthelm]

If only the Pro-Bee lobby had donated to the Tory Party ?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tate-lyle-brexit-trade-eu-conservatives-greenpeace-a9661651.html

more cane sugar shipped in from round the world, less need for beet sugar with the pesticides here.

 

[Sorrel]

I thought this Twitter thread (from December, when this was being discussed) was decent at explaining the issues: https://twitter.com/Tom_Clarke/status/1337737078789038082?s=20

 

[rogersix]

Your chat up line needs a lot of work.

are you peter ustinov?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

An innocent possible bee murdering thread on a sunday afternoon turned into a left wing political issue by our usual idiots.
Funny.