Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Martin Caton (Labour), on Tuesday, 17 January 2012, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 19 members in total.

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PESTICIDE USE AND POLLINATOR POPULATIONS

That this House notes the publication of the scientific paper Multiple routes of pesticide exposure for honey bees living near agricultural fields, reporting the recent findings of researchers at Purdue University, Indiana and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in the USA; recognises that this work shows that bees are exposed to neonicotinoid pesticide pollution of air, soil and plants throughout their foraging period following the planting of treated crops; believes that this adds significantly to the growing body of scientific evidence linking use of neonicotinoid pesticides with the decline in honey bee and other pollinator population in recent years; and calls on the Government to suspend the registration of all neonicotinoid insecticides whilst an in depth review of their impact on invertebrate species is undertaken.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2604 

Session

2010-12

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Kelvin Hopkins

Hywel Francis

Bob Russell

Jim Shannon

Subjects

Neonicotinoids Pollinators

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk