Current Events > In the Last three Months Alone, Pesticides Have Killed Some 500 Million Bees

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Earlier this year, a large scale of bee deaths was reported in southern Brazil due to pesticides used in soybean plantations. In Rio Grande do Sul, about 80 percent of bees are dying because of Fipronil pesticides, which are used in soybean farming.

This issue is even more serious and extensive, given that it has been occurring in other states of the country.

According to Agncia Pblica and Reprter Brasil, some 500 million bees have died in the last three months in four Brazilian states: 400 million in Rio Grande do Sul, 7 million in So Paulo, 50 million in Santa Catarina and 45 million in Mato Grosso do Sul.

This is an estimate by beekeeping associations, agriculture secretariats, and research conducted by universities. The cause of extermination, according to experts, is the species contact with pesticides based on neonicotinoids and Fipronil, banned in Europe for more than a decade.

The ingredients contained in these pesticides are lethal to insects when sprayed, as they spread beyond the affected area.

Fipronil is an insecticide that acts on insects nerve cells. When applied by aerial spraying, bees are directly exposed to it. An Embrapa survey, conducted in 2004, found that the method dispersed 19 percent of the sprayed pesticide to areas outside the area of application.

Neonicotinoid pesticides, on the other hand, have the potential of spreading throughout the entire plant. They are used in different crops: cotton, corn, soybeans, rice, and potatoes.

It's only a matter of time before nature starts striking back. This is terrible tauros
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Were gonna be fucked when all the bees die off
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Who cares about the environment and nature tho, we need more coal mines and anyone who believes climate change is just a fear monger
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What? You're telling me the country that wants to bulldoze the source of a fifth of our oxygen doesnt care about pollinators? I'm shocked, shocked!
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Shit, were all gonna die
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up
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