How to avoid bee-killing pesticides
To save the bees, you should avoid toxic bee-killing pesticides called neonicotinoids. Use our guide to identify which pesticides contain neonicotinoids.
Pesticides
The unnecessary use of pesticides is harming ecosystems and threatening our health.
If you’re lucky, you might see a summer’s field buzzing with bees or a flock of monarch butterflies undertaking their annual migration. But our country’s overuse of toxic pesticides is making such sights less common as it makes much of our country’s environment toxic. Seeping far beyond the initially treated zones, these pesticides are infiltrating our soil, water systems and food chains. Together, we can put our country on a safer path free of pesticides.
The Latest on Pesticides
Jewels of the sky
Bayer’s pesticides are harming bees
Updates
To save the bees, we must track pesticides
Good news, bad news for this butterfly
Trick or Seed builds support for protecting pollinators, reducing pesticides
Featured Resources
Guide to planting a pollinator-friendly garden
Green schools guide
Did You Know?
Monarch populations have dropped by more than 80% in recent decades, due in part to our country’s overuse of pesticides.
Want to learn more about the toxic impacts pesticides are having on our ecosystems and wildlife?
The Latest
Trick or Seed: Students distribute pollinator-friendly seed balls and build support to eliminate pesticides
As bee populations drop, CU-Boulder students work to eliminate the consumer sale of bee-killing pesticides like neonics.
Making seed balls to support pollinators and pumpkins at Bee Hugger Farm
Boulder businesses join call to support pollinators
Support bloomed for our Save the Bees campaign as our CU-Boulder student team canvassed Boulder businesses
Showing gratitude for bees this Thanksgiving
Many Thanksgiving favorites wouldn’t be the same without bees
Team
Blackledge
Steve
Blackledge
Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America
Rakov
Susan
Rakov
Managing Director, Frontier Group; Senior Vice President, The Public Interest Network