As a Pest Control Technician in the US, it's absolutely wild to consider using Neonicotinoids for agricultural pest control.

A very large part of why Neonicotinoids (Neo-nics) are so dangerous for Bees, is that unlike other forms of pesticides, they are "biocompatible" with plants (they're based on nicotine after all).

Even just getting Neo-nics near plants can allow them to project the full pesticide directly into the nectar, after the root systems pull the Neo-nics in.

Another large reason that Neo-nics are super dangerous to Bees, is called the "transfer effect".

Essentially if a Bee gets any of the Neo-nic on them, they can spread it by just saying "Hello" to the other Bees in the hive.

So you have Neo-nic laden Nectar, getting brought directly back to the hive... It's game over.

We really need ro stop thinking of bees as cute bugs and understand that they are livestock.

"Hey, we are lifting the ban on spraying cattle-poison from the air," sounds much more crazy.

How long are we going to thumb our noses at the environment. We knew better almost seventy years ago. But yet here we are still massively overusing pesticides and fertilizers.

Typically the use of fertilizers and pesticides for farming just increases the need to use fertilizers and pesticides the next year. Its not a very sustainable application. Make it through this season because you poisoned all the aphids, but you completely destroy the food web they are a part of too and leave nothing but more room for them to spread next time.

Who needs bees anyway, they just sting you, right

I read barkeepers and was confused.

I'm tired of this planet. How do I get off?

I've thought of a way to make neonicotinoids have a built-in limited lifespan.