A pesticide which can harm bees has been approved for use in 2022. 
Emergency use of a product containing the chemical thiamethoxam has been authorised in England because of a virus which affects sugar beets. 
The decision came despite expert advisers finding pollution from the pesticide would damage river life, and requirements for use had not been met. But Environment Secretary George Eustice said product use would be "limited and controlled". 
In 2018, an almost total ban was put in by the EU and UK because of the serious damage the chemical could cause to bees. Scientific studies have linked the use of these chemicals to the falling numbers of honeybees, wild bees and other animals which pollinate plants.

To minimise risks to bees, George Eustice says that farmers will be forbidden from growing flowering plants for 32 months after the sugar beet crop but he admitted it was not possible to "rule out completely a degree of risk to bees". This is a complete turn around on what was agreed to by the then environment secretary Michael Gove in late 2017.

What has changed…nothing!

Insects generally are really up against it and we don’t need further pressure put upon are life providers

Please show your support by signing this petition to reverse the decision just made by the government.

Save our bees and allow them to do what they do best