Tell Congress to Save America's Pollinators!

Things aren't looking good for pollinators. Honey bee colonies are suffering record-breaking losses.

In a blow to an already devasted pollinator population, the Saving Amercia's Pollinators Act, the bill to ban Bayer's neonicotinoid insecticides, has yet to be reintroduced, President Trump's budget eliminates the Bee Lab, a government research institute that studies pollinators, including how they're impacted by neonics, and enforcement of the Endangered Species Act is being limited to prevent protection of habitats pollinators need to survive.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Save America's Pollinators!

Trump's budget would elimate the U.S. Geological Service's Ecosystems Mission Area and shutter its Bee Lab. Getting rid of the Ecosystems Mission Area is part of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's infamous plan for swinging a wrecking ball through the federal government.

For all their talk about Making America Healthy Again, the current administration doesn't like the way the work of the Ecosystems Mission Area contributes to calls for protection of endangered species. That might interfere with Big Business, including the pesticide industry. Their viewpoint is shortsighted, if they really care about health, since neonics are just as bad for humans as they are for pollinators. "Research links neonic exposures in the womb to birth defects of the heart and brain, autism-like symptoms, and reduced cognitive abilities. Adult exposures are also associated with lower testosterone and sperm quality and count, altered insulin regulation, and changes to fat metabolism," according to the National Resources Defense Council. This is alarming, given that over 95 percent of pregant women have neonics in their bodies.

The Interior Department has the power to limit the use of pesticides that harm endangered species, but Trump's Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a proposed rule that would prevent the Department from regulating harm to endangered species' habitat. That's crazy! How can you protect an endangered species while destroying its habitat?

Take the monarch butterfly, for example. It's been proposed for the threatened species list based on the disappearance of its habitat. Monsanto (now Bayer)'s Roundup Ready crops are erradicating milkweed by increasing herbicide use. Roundup Ready crops are genetically engineered to soak up massive amounts of glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller, which milkweed can't survive. If the Endangered Species Act's scope is limited to exclude habitat protection, there will be no way to save the butterfly.

Speak up before it's too late to urge your Members of Congress and Senator to defend the Department of Interior's Ecosystems Mission Area, its Bee Lab, and its enforcement of the Endangered Species Act. While you're at it, encourage them to reintroduce the Saving America's Pollinator's Act to ban the neonicotinoid coatings that Bayer puts on all of their GMO seeds. Neonicotinoid insecticides hurt pollinators, song birds, humans, and even babies growing in the womb. Neonics must be banned!

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Save America's Pollinators!

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Dear [Member of Congress],

Please support the Saving America's Pollinators Act to ban the neonicotinoid insecticides that are responsible for honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder.

Please save the U.S. Geological Services' Ecosystems Mission Area and its Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center. Trump's budget would eliminate this Department of Interior program, the only one tracking wild bees.

Please oppose Trump's proposed rule to prevent the Endangered Species Act from protecting habitat. Protecting habitat is the only way to save threatened pollinators like the monarch butterfly who can't survive without the milkweed that's being eradicated with the overuse of glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide. 

Scientists say 2025 is giving bee keepers the biggest loss of honeybee colonies in U.S. history. In the 2023-2024 season, commercial beekeepers saw a mortality rate in their hives of 30.9 percent, which was 7.9 percentage points higher than their running 13-year average summer loss of 23 percent.

Neonics don't just harm bees. "Research links neonic exposures in the womb to birth defects of the heart and brain, autism-like symptoms, and reduced cognitive abilities. Adult exposures are also associated with lower testosterone and sperm quality and count, altered insulin regulation, and changes to fat metabolism," according to the National Resources Defense Council. This is alarming, given that over 95 percent of pregnant women have neonics in their bodies, with the highest levels in Hispanic women, and levels are on the rise.

Colony collapse began when Bayer started coating Monsanto's genetically modified seeds soaked with bee-killing neonic insecticides.

By 2007, 80 percent of the corn seed sold by market-leader Pioneer was treated with Bayer’s clothianidin-based Poncho. 

By 2008, Colony Collapse Disorder was a worldwide problem.

Today, nearly all corn seeds and about half of soybean seeds are coated in neonics.

Bayer takes advantage of the fact that, in the US, seed treatments aren’t regulated as pesticides. Seed treatments used to be measured in overall neonic use, but the US Geological Survey started leaving them out in 2014.

That’s crazy, because just one corn seed can hold enough neonics to kill a quarter-million bees!

For monarch butterflies, the culprit is glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and the Roundup Ready crops that are genetically engineered to resist the weed killer. They've caused an explosion in herbicide use that is eradicating the butterflies' milkweed habitat. Roundup is also deadly to humans, killing farmers, farm workers, and pesticide applicators with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. 

Please do everything you can to protect pollinators--and people.

Thank you.

[Your Name]

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