Follow The Honey Bird

Beekeeper Mary Canning follows her sweet passion

Any insect that feeds on the crop dies," explains Tennekes. Even small doses can kill. Recent research, carried out on honey bees in the lab, showed that these insecticides build up in the central nervous system of the insect, so that very small doses over a long time period can have a fatal effect.

The reason that neonicotinoids can have such a powerful long-term effect is down to the way they work — binding irreversibly to receptors in the central nervous systems of insects. The damage is cumulative: And unfortunately the robust nature of neonicotinoids means that they can travel far beyond the crops they were used to treat. They can be washed out of soils and into surface and groundwater — as we've seen in the Netherlands since As a result, neonicotinoids are probably readily taken up by wild plants as well, and in this way spread throughout nature, causing irreversible damage to non-target insects," says Tennekes.

Many scientists now agree that there is strong evidence to suggest that neonicotinoid insecticides are damaging to bees. But what about the other insects? Are they being poisoned in the same way? The problem is that we are not really interested in insects, apart from bees because we need them and butterflies because they are pretty. However, the few insect species that we monitor closely indicate massive decline," says Tennekes.

A new PhD thesis goes some way to backing up Tennekes's claim. This year, Tessa van Dijk at Utrecht University demonstrated a strong link between increased pollution levels and a reduced presence of insects, and especially flying insects, in regions of the Netherlands where residues of neonicotinoids are high. Others agree that Tennekes may be onto something.

But much more data are needed to understand how big the role of neonicotinoids is," says van der Sluijs. But if it can be proved that they are causing a decline in insects, it is reasonable to assume a link to a decline in the bird species that eat insects. Some argue, however, that the story is unlikely to be so simple.

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Like so many things, the decline of bird populations is almost certainly multifactorial, involving pesticides, habitat loss and many other variables," says Gard Otis, an entomologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Nonetheless, some countries have already begun to take action.

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In the German, Italian and Slovenian authorities imposed a ban on the use of two types of neonicotinoid insecticides on maize. Meanwhile France has had a ban in place since , on a neonicotinoid insecticide used to dress sunflower seeds. The honeyguide mother ensures her chick hatches first by internally incubating the egg for an extra day before laying it, so that it has a head start in development compared to the hosts' offspring.

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The type of honey on tap rotates often, depending on availability, and Canning says she plans to install two additional taps during the year. Therefore, one can be for Massachusetts honey, one for honey from another state, and one for an international honey. Canning says she also hopes to be able to harvest honey from her own bees in Warwick this year under a Follow the Honey label.

Raw honey can crystallize and firm up, but Canning says it does not mean it is bad or expired.