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Pollinator News January 2019

Defending managed and native pollinators vital to an affordable and sustainable food supply from the adverse impact of pesticides.

In this issue

Neonic Moratorium- pg. 1

Take Action: EPA Violated ESA- pg. 3

Research--Neonics Impact Upon Pollinators-pg. 4

Arkansas honey seller faults dicamba in closing-pg. 5

Supporter & Artist Passes-pg. 6

Bee Club Resources-pg. 7

Who Owns the Seeds-pg. 8

Learning from the Bees-pg. 9

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Feb. 15-16, 2019- Western PA Beekeeping Seminar Feb. 23, 2019- Indiana Bee School March 21-22, 2019—HONEY Convention, Knoxville, TN July 8-10, 2019 Heartland Apicultural Society Conference July 15-19, 2019 Eastern Apicultural Society Conference Aug. 8-10, 2019- North Carolina State Beekeepers Assn. Conference

Seeking A Moratorium on Neonicotinoids to Curtail Bee Losses

Beekeepers generally acknowledge scientific knowledge almost always follows, not leads, what we observe in our hives. Beekeepers have been reluctant to point at any single factor as the cause of our fourteen years of heavy colony losses. If our hives die, we generally blame ourselves that we somehow did not feed enough, or treat for Varroa mites soon enough, or treat for nosema on time, or we had viruses out of control or our bees did not forage well. Is it possible that everything we just mentioned has a common trigger? We are convinced the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids along with their companion pesticides, either cause or exacerbate most of the issues beekeepers are experiencing in their colonies. With the exception of Imidicloprid (which has been almost exclusively used on non-bee attractive plants from 1998 through 2003) other Neonics were registered for wide agricultural use late in the fall of 2003. By the spring of 2006 the whole world knew something was drastically amiss in the US bee population.

REDUCED THERMAL REGULATION A study released in October 2016 determined that Thiamethoxam “...elicited a decrease in temperature . . . alterations in thermal regulation caused by Thiamethoxam may affect foraging activity and a variety of in hive tasks, likely leading to negative consequences at the colony level...” Bottom line for beekeepers: reduced honey crops and dead hives after cold snaps. http://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/nieh/press/wiredEiri.pdf

THIAMETHOXAM AND CLOTHIANIDIN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY OF MALE HONEY BEES A recent study implicates clothianidin and thiamethoxam as a culprit. “ ... here we show that two neonicotinoids (4.5 ppb thiamethoxam and 1.5 ppb clothianidin) significantly reduce the reproductive capacity of male honey bees (drones),...Our results demonstrate for the first time that neonicotinoid insecticides can negatively affect male insect reproductive capacity, and provide a possible mechanistic explanation for managed honey bee queen failure and wild insect pollinator decline.” https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2016.0506

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Reduced Foraging and Flight Distance

A study published April of 2017 found bees that consumed “a single sublethal dose of Thiamethoxam ... foragers showed excitation and significantly increased flight duration and distance... Chronic exposure significantly decreased flight duration... distance... and average velocity... These results provide the first demonstration that acute or chronic exposure to a neonicotinoid alone can significantly alter bee flight. Such exposure may impair foraging and homing, which are vital to normal colony function and ecosystem services.” For beekeepers this results in: bees lost and dead in the field, and poor honey production from ones that come home drunk and disoriented.

This class of pesticide also impacts native pollinators. A 2018 study found a low dose of neonicotinoid insecticide reduces foraging motivation of bumble bees. Neonicotinoid concentrations of 1 ppb, often reported in plant nectar near agricultural lands, can thus affect the foraging behaviour of bumble bees. Even without a notable impact on flight performance and learning, a reduction in foraging motivation could explain the poor performance of colonies of bumble bees exposed to neonicotinoids. Proc Biol Sci. 2018 Jul 25;285(1883). pii: 20180506. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0506. Lamsa J1, Kuusela E2,

Tuomi J2•3, Juntunen S2, Watts PC2, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/300 51863

Picky Eaters

A University of California- San Diego study determined bees exposed to Imidacloprid would not forage on low sugar content flowers: they became “picky eaters.” “James Nieh, a professor of biology at UC San Diego, said: “In 2006, it (Imidacloprid) was the sixth most commonly used pesticide in California and is sold for agricultural and home garden use. It is known to affect bee learning and memory . . . we discovered that the treated bees also danced less ... between fourfold and tenfold … The picky honey bees brought back dramatically reduced resources to the colony, which led to an overall smaller food store.” The bottom line for beekeepers: reduced honey crop and overwinter stores.

There is a preponderance of literature showing harmful effects to bees and other organisms from neonics. EPA has this science-based literature available to them, conducted by independent researchers at land-grant universities across the U.S., as well as USDA researchers, USGS researchers, and international researchers. EPA is fully aware of the damage being caused to honey bees, native pollinators, soil sustainability, water quality, and beekeeping by the use of these neonic pesticides. The Pollinator Stewardship Council will work during 2019 to defeat the re-registration of Neonicotinoids for the health of our managed and native pollinators. Join us, support our work, make a contribution today as we work for the health of pollinators.

We agree with The Task Force on Systemic Pesticides 2017 “Worldwide Integrated Assessment of the Effects of Systemic Pesticides On Biodiversity & Ecosystems,”

“The [ecosystemic] consequences of losing the invertebrate fauna due to continuous exposure to ubiquitous residues of neonicotinoids ... are thus far reaching and cannot be ignored any longer.”

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EPA failed to perform duties mandated by the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) to consult with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) regarding 59 EPA-approved pesticide products containing either of the insecticidal active ingredients clothianidin or thiamethoxam.

On May 8, 2017, the court issued an order on summary judgment dismissing claims against EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”), but finding that EPA failed to perform duties mandated by the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) to consult with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) regarding 59 EPA-approved pesticide products containing either of the insecticidal active ingredients clothianidin or thiamethoxam. The parties are proposing to reach a settlement in the form of a joint stipulation on the appropriate remedy for the court's finding of liability.

The public has the opportunity to provide a public comment concerning this joint stipulation and notice of dismissal in Ellis, et.al. v. Keigwin, et. al., No. 3:13-cv-01266. Joint Stipulation: June 30, 2022 deadline for EPA to complete the ESA effects determination for EPA’s registration reviews of clothianidin and thiamethoxam and, as appropriate, request initiation of any ESA consultations with FWS that EPA may determine to be necessary as a result of those effects determinations. There is a preponderance of literature showing harmful effects to bees and other organisms. EPA has this science-based literature available to them, conducted by independent researchers at land-grant universities across the U.S., as well as USDA researchers, USGS researchers, and international researchers. EPA is fully aware of the damage being caused to honey bees, native pollinators, soil sustainability, water quality, and beekeeping by the use of these neonic pesticides.

The Pollinator Stewardship Council is pleased the defendant-intervenors voluntarily agreed to cancel the registrations of twelve products containing clothianidin and thiamethoxam. However, there remain more products containing clothianidin and thiamethoxam which will continue to negatively impact our ecosystem. In addition to products containing multiple active or inert ingredients that result in synergism, pesticide products can often be mixed or co-applied in the field in a way that results in negative synergistic effects. BJ’s Wholesale Club, Lowes, and Home Depot are requiring their vendors to stop using neonics or to clearly label products containing or treated with neonics. In partnership with Pollinator Stewardship Council, Ortho, associated with Scotts Miracle-Gro, announced its decision to stop using neonics completely. They are two years ahead of schedule to completely remove all neonics from their Ortho brand by 2019. These entities are responding to the scientific research concerning neonics, and to the public outcry to protect pollinators vital to an affordable and sustainable food supply from the adverse impact of this class of pesticide. EPA needs to follow the lead of the consumer industry and place a moratorium on neonics NOW, and not wait until 2022. We support the joint stipulation and dismissal in the Ellis, et.al. v. Keigwin, et. al settlement. However, we support the additional actions, research, and solutions presented in our comment letter. There is a preponderance of literature showing clothianidin and thiamethoxam are harmful to bees and other organisms: EPA has access to all of the research on neonics. Solutions must be found sooner than 2022 if we are to save the biodiversity of our ecosystems.

Please send a comment letter in support of this settlement via by January 11, 2019

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RESEARCH

A common neonicotinoid pesticide, thiamethoxam, impairs honey bee flight ability https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01361-8

Interactions between Nosema microspores and a neonicotinoid weaken honey bees https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847190/

Toxicity of Imidacloprid to Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona postica Latreille, 1807 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25666568

Are bee diseases linked to pesticides?—A brief review https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412016300095

Interaction between Varroa destructor and imidacloprid reduces flight capacity of honey bees https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2015.1738

The neonicotinoids thiacloprid, imidacloprid, and clothianidin affect the immunocompetence of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022191016300014

Ensuring a Higher Level of Protection from Pesticides in Europe https://www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-europe.info/files/public/resources/reports/White%20Paper_Dec2018.pdf

Country specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees http://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Woodcock_mainpaper_aaa1190_V3.pdf

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Arkansas honey seller faults dicamba in closing

by Stephen Steed | January 5, 2019 at 4:30 a.m. from Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Crooked Creek Bee Co., the retail sales and processing side of Arkansas' largest commercial beekeeper, closed this week, a casualty of dicamba, Richard Coy, one of its owners, said Friday. The herbicide has been damaging or killing vegetation essential to pollination by bees the past three years, Coy said. Redvine, a flowering plant native to Arkansas, and button willow, a tree or shrub common in wetlands, are key to the flavor of his honey and have been particularly hit hard over the past year, he said. "The driving force behind us shutting down is the destruction of the pollinating plants that bees need," Coy said. Dicamba is a weedkiller linked to crop and vegetation damage in Arkansas and other states in the past three years, as farmers

planted soybeans and cotton genetically modified to be tolerant of the chemical. Dicamba damages other varieties of soybeans and cotton, fruits, vegetables and ornamental shrubs and bushes. Weed scientists in Arkansas and other states say dicamba is susceptible after application to "volatilizing" as a gas and moving miles away, especially in hot and humid weather. Arkansas had about 1,000 complaints of dicamba damage in 2017, prompting the state Plant Board to ban its use on crops after April 15 last year. Even with that cutoff date, the board received 200 complaints, leading its members to believe some farmers sprayed illegally deep into the summer. After the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced in October that it will allow the in-crop use of dicamba through December 2020, the Plant Board recommended allowing its use this year through May 20. That recommendation, however, still must go through a 30-day period for public comment and a public hearing. The Plant Board on Friday set the comment period to run from Monday through Feb. 5. The public hearing is set for 9 a.m. Feb. 20 at the Embassy Suites hotel in west Little Rock. Coy also is a co-owner of Coy's Honey Farm Inc., the state's largest commercial beekeeping operation with some 12,000 hives. He said dicamba use in Arkansas is forcing him to move those operations to southern Mississippi over the next couple of years. "Honey production is so far down, we can't stay in operation," Coy said. "There's going to be no vegetation for bees if we keep this up. The possibility of better honey production in Arkansas the next few years is rather slim." Healthy hives produce 100 pounds of honey a year, a threshold met for several years until 2017, Coy said, when production was cut by 30 percent in areas where dicamba was used. Production was down 50 percent in those areas last year. Coy bought Crooked Creek about three years ago and built a processing plant near Jonesboro as it expanded into retail sales. He first announced Crooked Creek's closing on its Facebook page on New Year's Day. Crooked Creek had five part-time employees and one full-time employee, Coy said, and averaged $450,000 in gross sales each of the past three years. It bottled and shipped its honey -- in 12-ounce jars shaped like bears and 55-pound jugs -- to more than 80 stores in the Jonesboro, Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas metropolitan areas. "We were able to pick the best honey for retail," he said. "But when production falls, your grade of honey also falls. If we can't make honey off redvine and button willow, the rest of the vegetation produces a less desirable honey." READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jan/05/honey-seller-faults-dicamba-in-closing-/

Photo of Richard Coy from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette

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Supporter and Artist Passes

Is it the artist alone who makes the art, or is it the audience who completes the work? ~ Christine Gorbach, 2016 Christine Gorbach, age 64, of Brecksville, Ohio, passed away on November 22, 2018, in Akron, Ohio, following complications from an aneurysm. Art was her passion, and through a plethora of talents, including abstract painting, film making, music, and dance, she brought beauty and color into the lives of all who knew her. She taught art in the Cuyahoga Falls School system for 30 years, and taught at the college level for ten more. She enjoyed working for Kent State University as a supervisor for Art Education and adjunct professor. Christine's art work was exhibited throughout the world, including Toronto, Denmark, Germany, and France, with numerous showings throughout the United States as well. She was the recipient of the National Arts Education Association (NAEA) Women's Caucus Carrie Nordlund Award for Excellence in Feminist Pedagogy in 2008. Her film, My Regards, won a First Place award at the Iona College New York show "The Female Gaze: Women Artists Interpret the World."

She contributed her time and talent to paint the conference table backdrop above for Pollinator Stewardship Council in support of our mission. This backdrop is enjoyed by many who appreciate its beauty, the imagery supporting our mission, and the visual respite it provided in a windowless conference hall. She also hosted a House Fundraiser for the “Keep the Hives Alive” film. Funeral services were held Monday, November 26 at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for donations to the Christine Gorbach Art Education Scholarship at Kent State University in her honor and memory: http://ksu.convio.net/site/Donation2?4284.donation=form1&df_id=4284&mfc_pref=T - Please make checks payable to the Kent State Foundation, with Gorbach Scholarship in the Memo line. Checks can be mailed to: Gift Processing, Kent State Foundation, P.O. Box 5190, Kent OH, 44242

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7 Tips for Running Effective Nonprofit Board Meetings by Lincoln Arneal The board of directors is the heart that keeps the organization moving forward. The problem is many people view board of director meetings as a drab and high level mumbo jumbo. However, with some planning and foresight, you can make these meetings more lively and engaging. Here are seven lessons that can help make your board of director meetings more productive, exciting and worthwhile. 1.The Meeting Starts Before the Meeting A board of directors meeting doesn’t actually start when everyone is sitting around a table and it is called to order. Your work actually starts long before then. Prior to the meeting, you need take care of the logistics to make the time run smoothly. It helps to collect and send out all of the regular reports including the financials, director reports and any other business filings that need to be reviewed prior to meeting. If you send it out to the directors early, they have time to take notes, prepare questions and become more familiar with the information. 2.Agenda Setting Each meeting has several regular business items that need to be covered, such as reviewing previous meeting minutes, reports and discussing new and old business—but how you set up the meeting can dictate its effectiveness. 3.Team Building You don’t have to play together, but you should care about the people you are working with and the board members should have an investment in what you’re doing. 4.Keep Detailed Minutes The minutes should include a summary of points being made, actions steps, motions and other official actions. Taking detailed, thorough minutes during the meeting can help eliminate headaches later. 5.Listen and Ask for Opinions You can make them feel more engaged by making sure everyone has the chance to contribute. 6.Recognize and Thank Board members should be recognized for their contributions both to your organization and in their everyday life. While this might not be tied directly to meetings, making sure that your directors know that you appreciate their work can help you have more effective meetings. If they feel appreciated, they will likely be more engaged and want to participate. 7.Review Action Items This is simple and straightforward, but you should review action steps for the next meeting twice, if not three times. As with anything, leading a meeting takes skill. It takes leadership, organization and clear expectations. If you follow these seven tips, you’ll be off to a good start to make you board of director meetings more efficient—but also make your own adjustments based on your specific board. Before you know it, your board will be pumping like a strong, healthy heart. Read the full article at https://nonprofithub.org/board-of-directors/7-tips-for-running-effective-nonprofit-board-meetings/

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December 31st, 2018 (from The Cornucopia Institute https://www.cornucopia.org/2018/12/dr-phil-howard-updates-seed-industry-graphic-december-

2018/?utm_source=eNews&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1.5.19&utm_campaign=SeedMORE)

Dr. Phil Howard, the creator of the popular Who Owns Organics infographic, updated his work on corporate consolidation in the global seed industry in December 2018.

The graphic below shows ownership changes occurring from 1996, when the top three corporations in the global seed industry controlled 22% of the industry, to 2018. Note that the size of the largest circles are proportional to global seed sales, which are dominated by Bayer and Corteva.

View or download a high resolution PDF of this image or a black and white PDF of this image. In recent years, the “Big 6” agrichemical/seed firms have combined into the “Big 4”:

Dow and DuPont merged in 2015 and then divided into three companies, including Corteva Chemchina acquired Syngenta Bayer acquired Monsanto Bayer’s seed divisions were sold to BASF

These four firms now control an estimated 60+% of global proprietary seed sales. China’s ChemChina and Longping High-Tech are now ranked in the top ten in global seed sales. Both firms are planning more acquisitions in the near-term.

Dr. Phil Howard is an Associate Professor at Michigan State. He teaches in the University’s Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies program. Dr. Howard provides additional interesting information on the structure of the organic and food industry at https://philhoward.net/

Who Owns The Seeds

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Contributor: Susan Rudnicki This past fall an international bee gathering was held that was not the "typical" conference template. The organizers wanted to look at the way humans have interacted with bees from ancient times and have that perspective inform our lives with bees in a new way. This event "Learning from the Bees" was the first of its kind with this "old is new" organization- bringing together natural beekeepers, scientists, nature conservationists, artists and bee-lovers from all over the world." In total, we saw people from 30 countries and almost 500 attendees for the 3 days.

The organizers and participants focused on acknowledging the honey bee’s place in this world as a creature worthy of respect and protection in its own right, not as simply commodity producers or service providers. Instead of putting beekeepers needs first, we have to ask ourselves what the bees will need from us to safeguard their future? How can the bees’ natural behaviour inform the way we shape and conserve (agricultural) landscapes as well as our beekeeping practices? In short, how and what can we learn from the bees? "Together, we will shift our gaze from contemporary apicultural practices (heavily defined by strict management procedures) towards a Culture of the Bee, exploring together what that may look like, and how best to listen to the messages these pollinators are giving us about ourselves and about our relationship with the land (or with nature). In this way we hope to weave a strong international network of initiatives, which share the common objective of returning health and resilience to the honey bee worldwide." With these guiding principles (dubbed the "Not-Varroa" conversation), many presenters were speaking of the Darwinian concepts of adaptation via selective pressure as discussed by Dr. Tom Seeley of Cornell University, Dr. Tjeerd Blacquiere of Wageingen University, Holland, and Heidi Herrmann of the Natural Beekeeping Trust, UK. These concepts refer to what we already know about ANY organism encountering pests and disease in adapting at the cellular immune system level up to the behavioral level when taking actions to protect the colony health. Modern beekeeping practice and theory has strayed very far from this interrelationship that essentially defines all organisms' evolutionary success or failure. Around the world, pastoralists as well as suburbanites and city residents are using local survivor stock honey bees, yet are afforded little attention by the larger academic institutions and corporate supported "bee health" programs. This deficit is not scientifically justified. Some in Europe are attempting to address it. In presenting "Natural Selection", Dr Peter Neumann, Institute of Bee Health, University of Bern, Switzerland, focused on "...success of beekeeping in terms of colony vitality and resilience will depend largely on becoming well adapted to their environment. There is an urgent need to address the practices of conventional beekeeping that hinder such adaptation, such as importation of queens, suppression of natural reproduction, apiary design that changes the ecology of disease to favor virulent strains of pathogens and parasites, chemical and other treatments of colonies, etc." These same themes formed the backbone of presentations on decline of resilience in honey bees as presented in "Progressive Beekeeping" by Torban Schiffer, University of Wurzburg, Germany (a research associate of Jurgen Tautz, well known author of "The Buzz About Bees---Biology of a Superorganism") and Bartolmiej Maleta, and Wolne Pszcaoly. The latter two presenters describe a "successful community endeavor currently running in Poland, aligned with natural life habits, and successful treatment free beekeeping." Finally, bee foraging opportunities have been dramatically damaged throughout the world, so that, along with the heavy use of agricultural chemicals, bee health is becoming severely impacted. Diversity and quantity of flowering plants has been reduced dramatically---a recent survey from Germany records a whopping decline in aerial insects of 75% in the last 27 years. Honey bees are just one of the more obvious human valued insects to be in this group. ("The Insect Apocalypse is Here---What does it Mean for the Rest of Life on Earth?" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html?fbclid=IwAR1zoUMlD_BnqZlYWVWcRePT1ZnjWCXV2iNjAqijIHlkFX3G5mriu5qLb1k )

Learning from the Bees

Several presentations from around the world showed initiatives on the local level for planting former "waste places"---road and railway verges---with flowering plants by seeding. Holland, where the conference was held, has been strengthening its forage availability with the project "Honey Highways" along rivers, canals, roadways and railways. The state of the natural world is in great stress due to the activities and business of humans, and we have a looming existential crisis with Climate Change. In many ways, the insects and the honey bee are harbingers of the dangerous lack of diligence we apply to living on a finite planet. We can do much better, but it will take concerted effort and will. We KNOW much of what we should do, and this conference applies that knowledge to changing our relationship to the bees and all pollinators. Learn more about this conference at https://www.learningfromthebees.org

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The Pollinator Stewardship Council, Inc. Board of Directors is now calling for

a moratorium on the use and registration of the neonic class of pesticides

for the protection of pollinators, the food web, and the biodiversity of the

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