Ontario has a new regulation to reduce the use of seeds treated with neonicotinoid pesticides (“neonics”): these pesticides have been implicated in the global decline of bees. Ontario is the first jurisdiction in North America to regulate restrictions on the agricultural use of neonics.
Based on European countries’ experience with neonic restrictions healthier pollinator populations and sustained crop yields are expected in years to come.
Neonics are lethal to honeybees and cause a range of harmful effects on other important species such as wild bees, birds, butterflies and earthworms. Current widespread and indiscriminate use of neonics threatens ecosystem functioning.
Italy banned the use of neonic-treated corn seed in 2008.The following spring, the number of cases of sudden bee die-offs in corn-planting regions dropped to near zero, hives were flourishing again. bees bees Go Green Pest Control Delta pest Control Tsawwassen Pest Control Ladner pest Control Randy Bilesky