John,

At the end of a long day, a bee flies home carrying nectar and pollen to feed her colony.

She doesn't know that the food she carries is contaminated with neonicotinoids, a widely used class of bee-killing pesticides.

When this food is fed to the colony's baby bees, it will damage their developing brains -- making it much harder for them to navigate the world and forage for pollen when they grow up to adulthood.1

Environment Colorado is working to protect baby bees -- and all bees -- from bee-killing pesticides.

Will you donate before the deadline at midnight tomorrow to help us meet our $200,000 goal?

Baby bees are helpless -- they rely on adult bees in the colony to feed them. Their only task is to learn and grow, but too often, the food they're fed is laced with dangerous neonic pesticides.

Even small doses of neonics can irreparably damage baby bees' brains. Their future ability to forage and perform other tasks critical to the colony's survival is impaired, putting the whole hive at risk.2

Bees everywhere are up against a lot: climate change, habitat loss and widespread pesticide use. To face these challenges, they need their young to grow up healthy and whole -- and whether they know it or not, they need our help. Here's what our campaign is doing to save the bees:

• We're calling on Amazon and other major retailers to stop selling bee-killing neonic pesticides. Already, we've collected more than 100,000 petition signatures urging Amazon to take action.

• We're urging the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the worst uses of bee-killing pesticides, including restricting the use of neonic-coated seeds, which we've also seen harm songbirds.

• We're asking our governor to direct state agencies to plant more bee-friendly habitat on public lands, including in parks and along roadsides.

• We're calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list one of the most imperiled wild bee species, the American bumblebee, as endangered. That would grant this special bee and its habitat much-needed protections.

When we bring the whole Environment Colorado hive together, we can win the action we need to save the bees.

You can help make sure we have the resources we need to work to save the bees in the new year. Make a donation to our Year-End Drive today.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

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

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.