There is still pressure from farmers to use neonics on crops. This is a quote from a farmer on the Farming Weekly website.
"Oilseed rape crops were established in good conditions, but as soon as they emerged they were ravaged by this pest.
Only now do we realise what the seed dressing was doing: how crazy is it to be repeatedly spraying broad-spectrum insecticide, killing beneficial insects, knowing that a neonicotinoid alternative would have just targeted the dreaded flea beetle?"
It would appear that neonics times are up - or they will be soon I suspect - I wonder if a study has been done on whether wildlife recovers better after the application of neonic seed dressings and been replaced by spray insecticides compared to if they continue to be used?
My concern is that the banning of neonicitinoids will mean that farmers are just replacing them with a different insect killing chemical so wildlife is no better off.
"Oilseed rape crops were established in good conditions, but as soon as they emerged they were ravaged by this pest.
Only now do we realise what the seed dressing was doing: how crazy is it to be repeatedly spraying broad-spectrum insecticide, killing beneficial insects, knowing that a neonicotinoid alternative would have just targeted the dreaded flea beetle?"
It would appear that neonics times are up - or they will be soon I suspect - I wonder if a study has been done on whether wildlife recovers better after the application of neonic seed dressings and been replaced by spray insecticides compared to if they continue to be used?
My concern is that the banning of neonicitinoids will mean that farmers are just replacing them with a different insect killing chemical so wildlife is no better off.
May your bees read the same books as you do.