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John,

Neonicotinoid pesticides are deadly to bees, but that's not all.

Neonics are also extremely addictive. Once a bee lands on a flower treated with neonics, it will return again and again, even as the pesticide destroys its brain and nervous system.[1]

If you wanted to kill bees, it's hard to think of a more twisted or manipulative way to do it.

Many of these neonic pesticides are still being sold by home improvement stores, including Home Depot.

Tell Home Depot: Stop selling bee-killing pesticides.
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One study has shown that once bees get a taste of pesticides, bees actually prefer neonic-treated pollen to pesticide-free food.[2]

Once they find a flower with neonics, they might use their incredible communication skills to tell all their friends to go to that flower -- thus sending them to their deaths. Perhaps neonics' deadly appeal shouldn't come as a surprise -- they are closely related to nicotine.

Bees are essential creatures -- all they want to do is buzz from flower to flower, fulfilling their natural role as pollinators. But with neonics, that need to pollinate is what seals the bees' fate.

Pesticides are intended to protect plants, but instead neonics kill the pollinators that plants depend upon.

That's why we're calling on Home Depot to stop selling these dangerous bee-killing pesticides and give bees a chance to buzz from flower to flower in safety.

Add your name: Home Depot needs to take neonics off its shelves.
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Home Depot has already taken some measures to limit neonic pesticides. At the encouragement of Environment Colorado and our national network, the company agreed to phase out neonics in all its plants by 2018.[3]

But that isn't sufficient. Home Depot still sells neonic pesticides for lawn care and other purposes. We need to encourage Home Depot to finish the job and stop selling these toxic bee-killing pesticides entirely.

Tell Home Depot: No more neonics.
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Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. Bopha Phorn, "Bees develop a taste for some pesticides the way humans get addicted to nicotine, say scientists," ABC News, August 30, 2018.
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2. Bopha Phorn, "Bees develop a taste for some pesticides the way humans get addicted to nicotine, say scientists," ABC News, August 30, 2018.
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3. "Home Depot to phase out neonics by 2018," Greenhouse Management, December 3, 2015.
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