John,

Early summer is when queen bees lay their eggs and baby bees are hatched. This is one of the most important times in the life cycle of a bee colony.

But right now, newly hatched baby bees are being harmed by toxic pesticides that are causing irreversible damage to their developing brains.1

Environment Colorado is mobilizing grassroots support to ban the worst uses of these bee-killing pesticides.

Will you donate to help protect baby bees from toxic pesticides?

Baby bees are learning and growing, preparing to explore the world around them for the first time. But as they grow, the baby bee food they eat is often laced with toxic neonicotinoid pesticides (neonics).

Just small doses of neonics in a baby bee's meal can irreparably damage how they think -- making it much harder for those baby bees to navigate the world and forage for pollen when they grow up to adulthood.2

Pesticides are giving baby bees brain damage, interfering with their ability to forage for food and perform other tasks critical to their survival.3

Bee populations are being devastated by bee-killing pesticides, habitat loss and climate change. We're working to save the bees by:

• Telling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the worst uses of bee-killing pesticides, including restricting neonic-coated seeds that also kill birds.
• Urging more states to take action to save the bees. Colorado has already restricted some of the worst uses of neonics, but we have more work to do.
• Calling on major retailers, including Amazon, to stop selling bee-killing pesticides.
• Building support for native bee species that need endangered species protections. We're asking the Fish and Wildlife Service to act to save the American bumblebee, which has already disappeared from eight states.

Together, we can help save the baby bees emerging from their hives for the first time.

Donate today to help save the bees.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. Katie Hunt, "Pesticides damage the brains of baby bees, new research finds," CNN, March 3, 2020.
2. Katie Hunt, "Pesticides damage the brains of baby bees, new research finds," CNN, March 3, 2020.
3. Imperial College London, "Pesticides impair baby bee brain development," ScienceDaily, March 3, 2020.

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