More and more bee colonies are no longer able to survive the winter. At the beginning of 2012, German beekeepers lost a quarter of their population. The reasons for this were mites,
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More and more bee colonies are no longer able to survive the winter. At the beginning of 2012, German beekeepers lost a quarter of their population. The reasons for this were mites, viruses and probably pesticides. Are bees threatened with extinction? It has not come to that yet, but more and more bee colonies are no longer able to survive the winter. At the beginning of 2012, German beekeepers lost a quarter of their population. The reasons for this were mites, viruses and probably pesticides. According to a recent EU report, so-called neonicotinoids are suspected of poisoning bees. The EU Commission would therefore like to ban the pesticides for two years. But the manufacturers, which include Bayer in Leverkusen, do not want to let their lucrative business with neonicotinoids be ruined.
