Chemicals That Harm Bees To Stop Producing By Ortho

Chemicals that are potentially harming bees has been stopped by garden-care giant Ortho after warnings about the threats to pollinators and food crops.

Bees are very important to the food supply because about one-third of the human diet comes from honeybees and other insect-pollinated plants.

Honeybees are responsible for about 80% of the pollination and many were already concerned regarding the declining number of honeybees that are growing over a specific period of time.

Ortho said it has already removed the chemical named “neonicotinoids” from their majority of products used in controlling garden pests and diseases.

It is also planning to remove the rest of it from their other minor products in two to five years.

Remember that, we should always be careful with our nature, the animals, and all living things around us for they are all that we have now, in spite of the high technology that covers us.

The company Ortho is said to be the first garden products brand to stop using the chemicals, according to Lori Ann Burd, director of Environmental Health Program at the Center for Biological Diversity.

It has been a god news since they announced it and a very good heads up to other companies that produce the same products as well.

The chemicals, called “neonics” for short, attack the central nervous systems of honey bees, and other insects, making them very vulnerable to predators and other severe diseases, researchers said.

Other pesticides along with disease and declining diversity in our surroundings are among the causes of severe decline in honey bee growth and populations in the world, according to a United Nations study released last February.

Removing neonics and other pesticides from Ortho products is already a great help to pollinators. Ortho is a division of Marysville, Ohio-based Scotts Miracle-Gro Company.

The effect of the said chemical on the bees appears to vary depending on the type of the plant they are used on.

May it be not true to all manufacturing companies, chemicals will always be chemicals – and they cause gradual loss of living thing on our Mother Nature.