{"id":924,"date":"2016-07-03T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T14:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-07-03T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T14:48:43","slug":"gardenadvice-bee-project-a-pesticide-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/gardenadvice-bee-project-a-pesticide-free-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"GardenAdvice Bee Project – A Pesticide Free Zone."},"content":{"rendered":"

GardenAdvice Bee project <\/a>– a pesticide free zone<\/strong>
\nSounds obvious but its not that easy Lots of pesticides are introduced to your garden through the plants and composts you buy. Often composts contain pesticides and plants have been treated in the growing process and the active chemical has been taken up by the plant ready to pass on to feeding bees. Although the amounts are small the accumulative effect on a bee feeding and collecting pollen on hundreds of plants is causing them harm and introducing pesticides directly into hives and bee colonies.
\nThe GardenAdvice Plants For Bees scheme now included plants and seeds for companion planting scheme to help protect your plants against pests and in the case of serious pest infestations some organic methods of control. However the reality is that if we wish the bees to recover and prosper then we as gardeners have to have a fundamental change to the way we view pests in the garden accepting some pest damage as part of an over all plant to help our garden bees.
\nFind out some more details about our Gardenadvice Bee Project Click Here\u00a0<\/a>
\nThe is an article we came across on Bees and pesticides you might find interesting its from the startribune.com
\nBuyer bee-ware.
\nThat\u2019s the bottom line of a recent study claiming that many plants touted as \u201cbee-friendly\u201d are actually deadly, because they\u2019ve been pre-treated with pesticides shown to harm and kill bees.
\nThe study, released by Friends of the Earth-US and co-authored by the Pesticide Research Institute, found that seven of 13 samples of garden plants bought at some large national retailers in Minneoplois, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area contained neonicotinoids, a widely used class of neurotoxic pesticides believed to be a factor in widely publicized global bee die-offs, or colony collapse disorder.
\nThat may mean planting coneflowers or bee balm to attract pollinators including bees won\u2019t do them any favors.
\n\u201cSo-called \u2018bee-friendly\u2019 garden plants contain pesticides that can poison bees, with no warning to gardeners,\u201d said Lisa Archer, director of the Food and Technology Program at Friends of the Earth-US. \u201cBees are essential to our food system, and they are dying at alarming rates. Neonic pesticides are a key part of the problem we can start to fix right now in our own back yards.\u201d
\nFriends of the Earth recently sent letters to Lowe\u2019s, Home Depot, Target and other retailers, asking them to stop selling neonicotinoids and plants pre-treated with the pesticides.
\n\u201cWe haven\u2019t reviewed the study yet,\u201d said Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes. \u201cBut we certainly appreciate the importance of the bee population and we\u2019ll be reaching out to the study groups to learn more about their findings and methodology.\u201d
\nThe use of such pesticides is much more widespread than most home gardeners realize, according to Heidi Heiland, owner of Heidi\u2019s Lifestyle Gardens, a Plymounth based company that designs, installs and maintains gardens and landscapes. Because Heiland, like most home gardeners, purchases plants from growers, she\u2019s said she\u2019s very concerned about the presence of neonicotinoids in plants she buys.
\nLandscape Alternatives, a native plant supplier in Shafer, Minn., grows all its own plants and uses no neonicotinoids, said owner Roy Robison.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s one of the advantages of native plants,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t have all the pests and diseases that fancy cultivated plants can get.\u201d
\nRobison does treat his plants with insecticidal soap, which kills insects by suffocating them rather than attacking the central nervous system. While insecticidal soaps do kill individual bees, they\u2019re not harmful to large populations long-term, he said.
\nThat can\u2019t be said of neonicotinoids. \u201cThey remain in plants and soil and can continue to affect pollinators for months to years after the treatment,\u201d said Timothy Brown of the Pesticide Research Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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