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.
We are working to save the bees - from asking Amazon to stop selling bee-killing pesticides to sharing bee-friendly garden tips - and you can help.
Bees play a crucial role in our lives. But as our society uses more pesticides, their populations are plummeting. Fortunately, we know how to help them: protecting already-existing bee habitat, expanding habitat by planting pollinator-friendly plants in our own gardens and on public lands, and ending the worst uses of the pesticides that are killing them. Together, we can save the bees.
To save the bees, you should avoid toxic bee-killing pesticides called neonicotinoids. Use our guide to identify which pesticides contain neonicotinoids.
Learn more about the ways our world relies on bees.
The use of neonicotinoid pesticides, like those produced by Bayer, has helped make much of America’s landscape toxic to bees.
Our cities can help protect bees and offer pollinators a safe haven through green infrastructure projects.
As bee populations drop, CU-Boulder students work to eliminate the consumer sale of bee-killing pesticides like neonics.
Support bloomed for our Save the Bees campaign as our CU-Boulder student team canvassed Boulder businesses
Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America
Managing Director, Frontier Group; Senior Vice President, The Public Interest Network