Pesticide Use And Pollinator Populations

EDM number 2604 in 2010-12, proposed by Martin Caton on 17/01/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture and environment and Animal diseases.

That this House notes the publication of the scientific paper Multiple routes of pesticide exposure for honey bees living near agricultural fields, reporting the recent findings of researchers at Purdue University, Indiana and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in the USA; recognises that this work shows that bees are exposed to neonicotinoid pesticide pollution of air, soil and plants throughout their foraging period following the planting of treated crops; believes that this adds significantly to the growing body of scientific evidence linking use of neonicotinoid pesticides with the decline in honey bee and other pollinator population in recent years; and calls on the Government to suspend the registration of all neonicotinoid insecticides whilst an in depth review of their impact on invertebrate species is undertaken.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.