Alarm Sounds on Bee-Killing Pesticides

Belgium, Switzerland and Spain called for a ban on insecticides based on fipronil 
 intimidation.The director of the Belgian center for apiculture information, Etienne Bruneau, said,
 "At the current rate, in 10 years there will be no more bees in Belgium."

France has authorized use of inventories of chemicals

 suspected of killing off bee populations. 

There is great concern in other European countries

 about this insect essential for agriculture.

he Bayer product was used mostly for sunflower and corn

 fields and was applied directly to the seeds, such that it was 

absorbed throughout the entire plant, from the roots to the

 leaves and grains.

According to the National Union of French Agriculturalists,

 Gaucho killed off hundreds of thousands of bees, an insect that

 serves the vital environmental function of pollination. 

Their disappearance also pushed thousands of small honey

 producers out of business.

 Belgium, Switzerland and Spain called for a ban on insecticides

 based on fipronil or imidacloprid.
The director of the Belgian center for apiculture information,

 Etienne Bruneau, said, "At the current rate, in 10 years there

 will be no more bees in Belgium."

However, Gaucho is not sprayed on growing plants; it is coated on the seeds.

 As a systemic pesticide, it is absorbed from the 

seed coating by the germinating plants and remains in the growing plant tissues, 

providing pest protection throughout the entire