Interview with Mr. Salvador Riolobos Rendon

Interview with Mr Angel Del Bel from Cordoba province

According to a National Academies report, honeybees pollinate more than 90 crops in America yet their population has declined 30 percent in the last 20 years. The scientists who wrote the report were alarmed at the rapidity of the decline of the pollinators. Back in 1976, the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a report by one of its former employees, S. E. McGregor, a honeybee expert. The report documented that about a third of what we eat results from honeybee pollination.

As part of Loudoun County’s campaign to combat the spread of Lyme disease, nine county-owned parks were recently sprayed with an insecticide in an effort to reduce the population of ticks, which can transmit the disease to humans. Members of the Loudoun Beekeepers Association questioned the county’s decision to apply a bifenthrin-based insecticide, called Talstar, which they said is highly toxic to bees and poses a substantial threat to beekeeper-owned bees and the vulnerable population of wild honeybees