Beeks! Please submit comments against Sufoxaflor—model is provided

[susan rudnicki]

All HoneyLovers should be submitting comments on this awful poison. The Pollinator Stewardship Council has provided a model letter—you don’t have to come up with anything yourself. But, if we care about the many abuses of industrial Ag and want the model changed, we HAVE to make noise. Here you go—-

Send your comments to the docket by February 11, 2016.
EPA announced that the State of Texas had applied for an emergency exemption under Section 18 of FIFRA to allow the use of sulfoxaflor on up to three million acres of sorghum for the control of the sugarcane aphid. Honey bees do collect pollen from grain sorghum, as well as honeydew from aphids when in a nectar dearth. While honey bees are not necessary for sorghum pollination, they, and the plant mutually benefit: sorghum is a pollinator attractive plant.

This past September, the Pollinator Stewardship Council, American Honey Producers Association, American Beekeeping Federation, and beekeepers won their legal action in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that stated EPA’s decision process to unconditionally register Sulfoxaflor was based on flawed and limited data. This legal decision “vacated and remanded” the registration of sulfoxaflor requiring the pesticide manufacturer to submit additional data to EPA.

The Pollinator Stewardship Council, and the Texas Beekeepers Association question the validity of this twenty-sixth emergency use request for Sulfoxaflor to control the sugarcane aphid on sorghum. We encourage EPA to follow the Court’s directive, their own emergency exemption guidelines, and decline this emergency exemption for Sulfoxaflor. Read our comment letter submitted to the docket.

Send your own comments to the docket by February 11, 2016

You can attach the PDF of our comment letter, and add your support to the concerns by Pollinator Stewardship Council and Texas Beekeepers Association.
1. Open our PDF and Save it to your computer
2. Go to EPA DOCKET at Regulations.gov
3. Type in your own comments in the text box
4. Upload the PDF
5. Select the SUBMIT COMMENT button
*Comments take 24-48 hours to be posted online.

You can copy and paste the brief letter below into the docket, add your own comments, and share the beekeepers’ voice with EPA.
1. Highlight the text of the comment letter below, and COPY the text
2. Select this link to open the docket
3. Place your cursor in the text box and PASTE the text
4. Add your own comments to the letter.
5. Select the SUBMIT COMMENT button
*Comments take 24-48 hours to be posted online.
Together we can protect honey bees, and improve their health and their forage.

Thank you for your support of honey bees, native pollinators, and beekeepers.
Michele Colopy, Program Director

[susan rudnicki]

Sorry—I don’t know how to make the links work—going to consult Ceebs—please follow up!! susan

[susan rudnicki]

I have a better link—go to this FB page for the Pollinator Stewardship Council, click the link in the first big box—http://pollinatorstewardship.org/?p=4076
A page will open with the model letter down at the bottom for you to cut and paste. Add some remarks of your own related to your feelings as a beekeeper. Go to the link for regulations.Gov and your copy/paste letter can be submitted against this powerful pesticide Thanks

• This reply was modified 10 years, 3 months ago by Chelsea McFarland.

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