KCC has a "Bee Pollinator Action Plan" after a successful campaign by our Green Cllr on KCC, Martin Whybrow. Sadly they continue to use glyphosate to spray on our roads, they don't leave all the verges to wildflowers and they clearly need to put some more effort in to support bees in Kent.
Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/kent-county-council-kent-county-council-stop-using-glyphosate
There is a "Bee Happy in Kent" Facebook group too!
https://www.facebook.com/Bee-Happy-in-Kent-114011470323498/
As well as killing off the flowers that bees live on, glyphosate makes bees more susceptible to infections. See https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds
This is KCC's Bee Pollinator Action Plan: https://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/103905/Kents-Plan-Bee.pdf and this is their statement on glyphosate. They are clearly at odds!
https://www.kent.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/what-we-look-after/soft-landscape-maintenance/weeds#tab-1,2,3,4,5
As well as killing off the flowers that bees live on, glyphosate makes bees more susceptible to infections. See https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/monsanto-weedkiller-harms-bees-research-finds
This is KCC's Bee Pollinator Action Plan: https://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/103905/Kents-Plan-Bee.pdf and this is their statement on glyphosate. They are clearly at odds!
https://www.kent.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/what-we-look-after/soft-landscape-maintenance/weeds#tab-1,2,3,4,5
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