John,

A single seed coated with neonicotinoids contains enough of the poison to kill up to 80,000 bees.1

As more and more bees die, dozens of bee species are spiraling toward extinction.

Saving the bees is one of Environment Colorado's top priorities this summer and in the year ahead.

With only a few hours left in our 2025 Fiscal Year-End Drive, will you donate? When you give before midnight, your gift will be matched by generous donors, up to $25,000 nationwide.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. Erin Hodgson and Christian Krupke, "Insecticidal Seed Treatments can Harm Honey Bees," Iowa State University, April 6, 2012.

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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 30, 2025
Subject: Give before midnight to double your impact for the bees
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>

John,

According to our records, we haven't yet received your donation to our 2025 Fiscal Year-End Drive. There's still time to help save the bees this summer.

For our 2025 Fiscal Year-End Drive, generous donors will be matching gifts across the country up to $25,000. Donate before midnight to make twice the impact.

Did you know that a pansy's billowing butter yellow petals are the exact shape and color to catch the eyes of a passing bee?

Same for its delicately sweet scent -- it serves as a beacon to bees, beckoning them to stop and sip the flower's nectar. As the bee drinks, bits of pollen collected from other flowers will be left behind, ensuring the flower can reproduce.

It's a match made in evolution. And it's quite literally beautiful.

But something is happening to the bees. Last winter was one of the deadliest on record for honey bees in the U.S., and you're nearly 50% less likely to see a bumblebee today than you would have been 50 years ago.1,2

Our pollinators are dying while flowers sit with their perfect petals and perfumed nectar, awaiting a date with a bee that will never come.

Bees need all the help they can get. Donate before midnight tonight and your gift will go twice as far.

One of the best ways to save bees is by phasing out the worst uses of bee-killing pesticides, including neonicotinoids, which damage bees' nervous systems and can result in death.3

We're petitioning home and garden stores to stop selling neonics and working to pass legislation that would phase out some of the worst uses of these pesticides.

Thanks to our national network, more than 1 in 4 Americans now lives in a state with some restriction on bee-killing pesticides, including all of us here in Colorado.4

This is progress, but we have a long way to go. We're already experiencing the effects of this insect apocalypse. A recent study found that as bees have become less common, pansies have started producing smaller, less colorful flowers with less nectar.5

A world with fewer bees is a world with fewer vibrant tulip blooms, a world where rose-perfumed evenings live only in memory.

There's still time to save our bees and blooms. Until midnight tonight, you can double your impact -- making our campaigns to save the bees twice as strong. Will you help?

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

P.S. If you've already donated to our 2025 Fiscal Year-End Drive, thank you! We may still be processing your gift.

1. Kerry Breen, "Millions of bees have died this year. It's 'the worst bee loss in recorded history,' one beekeeper says," CBS News, March 29, 2025.
2. Douglas Main, "Bumblebees are going extinct in a time of 'climate chaos'," National Geographic, February 6, 2020.
3. Steve Blackledge, "Bumblebees are disappearing before our eyes," Environment America, December 20, 2024.
4. "How to protect bees this Earth Day," Environment America, April 22, 2025.
5. Bella Isaacs-Thomas, "These pansies are evolving to rely less on pollinators. Here's why that may spell trouble," PBS News, February 8, 2024.

Your donation will be used to support all of our campaigns to protect the environment, from saving the bees and protecting public lands, to standing up for clean water and fighting climate change. None of our work would be possible without supporters like you. Environment Colorado may transfer up to $50 per dues-paying member per year into the Environment Colorado Small Donor Committee.