Neonicotinoids are inflicting mass suffering and death on honeybees worldwide.

Honeybees are still suffering and dying at an alarming and unsustainable rate, and at a rate deemed “too high for their long-term survival” according to a study published last year. Furthermore, a Harvard study released the same month points specifically to the neonictinoids group of pesticides, better known as neonics, as the definitive culprit in the honeybees’ precipitous and chronic decline. Continued use of this deadly pesticide will poison the honeybee into extinction and we must take action individually and as a nation to demand an end to their use.

Harvard’s study identified neonicotinoids as the cause behind Colony Collapse Disorder. First recorded in 2006, this phenomenon continues to devastate bee communities as members of the colony suddenly vanish, their bodies scarcely found. In the last decade, nearly half of the United Sates bee population has disappeared, according to the New York Times.

As a foraging species, honeybees depend on their complex memory to constantly locate food sources by associating specific flowers with an equally specific smell or color, learning its location for future use. Neonicotinoids distorts this vital foraging ability by attacking a bee’s central nervous system. Furthermore, this severe nerve damage inevitably leads to blocked communication abilities, lingering paralysis and a painful death.

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