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This is great!

We're presenting at the 2021 National Pesticide Forum, hosted by our friends at Beyond Pesticides. This year's focus is Cultivating Healthy Communities, and there's going to be a phenomenal lineup of speakers and workshops!
Check out the full lineup and register in advance here: https://www.beyondpesticides.org/programs/national-pesticide-forum/2021npf/registration

Yes. Right!?

New York City Council Passes Landmark Law Eliminating the Use of Toxic Pesticides in City Parks and Playgrounds, Stipulates List of Allowed Materials - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog It all started with New York City public school teacher Paula Rogovin and her kindergarten class. They went down to city call, wrote letters, shared artwork, and got the attention of Council Member Ben Kallos, who sponsored reform legislation. (Beyond Pesticides, April 23, 2021) Yesterday, on Earth....

Although these tests were not field-realistic, they do shows the differences in mortality based on ingredients --- and that the so-called inert ingredients are usually not.
"In the U.S., Bayer-Monsanto is selling a product line called Roundup® for Lawns which contains four different main active ingredients: dicamba, MCPA, quinclorac, and sulfenzatrone.
"Bumblebees sprayed with consumer use Roundup Ready-To-Use (contains glyphosate) experienced a shocking 94% mortality. Subsequent experiments were conducted at lower application rates for that product, and significant mortality was seen for the 1:1 dilution (98% mortality) as well as the 1:3 dilution rate (78% mortality). The agricultural use Roundup Proactive (contains glyphosate) saw lower rates of death at 30%. Weedol, a glyphosate-based consumer product, displayed a mortality rate (6%) similar to the unexposed control group of bumblebees (4%). However, Roundup Speed Ultra (no glyphosate) was found to kill 96% of exposed pollinators.
"..regulatory agencies should not be treating inert ingredients separately from active ingredients. When both active and inert ingredients can be equally hazardous, there is no reason to ignore up to 99% of a pesticide’s formulation simply because the manufacturer claims that only the active ingredient will harm the target pest."

Roundup Shown to Kill Bees—But Not How You Might Expect - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, April 20, 2021) Roundup products manufactured by Bayer-Monsanto kill exposed bumblebees at high rates, according to a new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, which points to undisclosed inert ingredients (those that typically make up a majority of the product formu...