Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2014. Forty Minnesota beekeepers have called on the state’s Department of Agriculture to suspend the use of corn seeds treated with bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides, now one of the most ubiquitously used insecticides nationwide. Their move follows a commitment by two Minnesota state agencies to study the impact of neonicotinoid pesticides, which—given mounting research implicating neonicotinoids in bee declines—beekeepers claim do not go far enough.
