Pollinators & Pesticides

Pollinators & Pesticides Bees & Pesticides Bee Decline & Pesticide Use Impacts on the Food Supply Regulatory Failures and Government (In)Action Mythbusting Popcorn's Dirty Secret Join the BEE PROTECTIVE Campaign Monsanto vs. Monarchs About Monarchs & Pesticides Monarch Decline & GE Crops Map of Monarch Migration, Breeding & Glyphosate Use Planting Milkweed for Monarchs State Legislation to Protect Pollinators Pollinator-Friendly Plants 2015 Pollinator Photo Contest Winners! Publications & Resources Fact Sheets Newsletters Reports Legal Actions Policy Comments News Room Press Releases Blog News • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 Tell Orville Redenbacher to Stop Killing Bees! It’s no secret we love popcorn. In fact, Americans consume more than 16 billion quarts of popcorn each year, but we’re getting more than we bargained for in all those bowls of popcorn: bee-toxic pesticides. That’s why... Read More What's Popcorn's Dirty Little Secret? Bee-Killing Pesticdes It’s no secret we love popcorn. In fact, Americans consume more than 16 billion quarts of popcorn each year. But we’re getting more than we bargained for in all those bowls of popcorn: bee-toxic pesticides.Bees are dying at alarming... Read More Tell The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to Protect the Threatened Monarch Butterfly Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity—joined by Xerces Society and renowned monarch scientist Prof. Lincoln Brower—have just filed a groundbreaking legal action to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species... Read More Victory! Pop Secret Becomes Second Company to Remove Neonicotinoids from Popcorn Supply in Response to Public Pressure Center for Food Safety (CFS) congratulates Pop Secret, owned by Diamond Foods (DMND), for taking a bold step towards removing bee-toxic insecticides from their popcorn supply. In October, CFS launched a campaign urging the company to phase out the use of... Read More Unlike Competitors, Orville Redenbacher’s is Still Bad for Bees Apparently, Orville Redenbacher’s doesn’t care about bees. READ MORE A Miracle For Bees Scott’s Miracle-Gro to remove bee-killing chemicals from Ortho-brand products WASHINGTON— Major lawn and garden care prod. READ MORE Featured News Monarchs Are Not on the Road to Recovery Endangered Species Act protection essential to monarchs’ survival Much as... Read More Obama Administration Sued Over Failure to Protect Monarch Butterflies WASHINGTON—Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife... Read More Victory! Pop Secret Becomes Second Company to Remove Neonicotinoids from Popcorn Supply in Response to Public Pressure Popcorn giant commits to following Pop Weaver’s lead in commitment to phase out... Read More