John,
Wild bees and butterflies need you today to help ensure their survival.
Please add your voice to stop the use of pollinator-killing pesticides.
Some of the most imperiled wildlife are some of the smallest—the beautiful monarch butterflies and our cherished wild bees. In the span of a few decades, monarch butterflies have plummeted by almost 70% in the East, and over 99% in the West. And some of our bumble bee species are declining so rapidly that they are now on the endangered species list.
But we can stop one of the most urgent threats to bees and butterflies: Certain harmful pesticides with outsized impacts on pollinators. Research shows that a group of insecticides known as neonicotinoids are highly toxic to native bees and butterflies and can harm their ability to fly and feed—and the Environmental Protection Agency is asking the public to weigh in on the use of these deadly chemicals.
Tell the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend the use of toxic neonicotinoid pesticides.
We’re working alongside trusted national partners to push the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend the use of pesticides that have had outsized impacts on pollinators until further research is done. And now is such a crucial time with spring planting happening in gardens and farm fields across the country.
But we can’t help monarchs and wild bees without caring friends of wildlife like you.
Please help beautiful butterflies and vulnerable wild bees survive. Speak out now.
Thank you so much for all you do to protect wildlife and our natural world.
