Organic Approved Pest Control Kills 90% Of Bumblebees It Contacts: Liverpool Study.

From: https://www.facebook.com/riskmonger/

"A new peer-reviewed study from Liverpool published yesterday shows that an organic farming approved biological pest control agent using nematodes (part of an IPM strategy) inadvertently kills almost 90% of the bumblebees that come in contact with it. It appears that exposure to this organic application via soil could account for serious declines in overwintering hives. See: https://peerj.com/articles/1413/
Once again, no testing had been done on this before allowing it on the market. As the organic industry lobby and their activist scientists like Dave Goulson continue to campaign against synthetic pesticides, their hypocritical position is becoming untenable. The paper quotes a 1996 study declaring that this pest control agent was safe for wildlife, urging the OECD to not regulate it! They did not consider how nematodes could act on hibernating bees. 20 years later, with many poor overwintering years, maybe someone should !!! ... instead of spending so much research funding trying to refute positive neonicotinoid field-trial data!
Please people, stop the witch-hunt on well tested synthetic chemicals and start treating all pest control tools the same. This parade of stupid is getting too painful to continue to watch. I know the NGOs are driven by an agenda to wipe out big chemical companies, but their untested alternatives seem to be wiping out bees!"