{"id":417,"date":"2015-07-31T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=417"},"modified":"2015-07-31T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T09:53:21","slug":"neonicotinoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Neonicotinoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neonicotinoids are the world&#8217;s most widely-used insecticides, but they are harmful to bees. Bees, of course, are a crucial part of our environment, and they pollinate crops. These insecticides were banned from the European Union in 2013, but after pressure from the National Farmers&#8217; Union, the UK government has agreed to allow use of the chemicals in certain parts of the country. See this <a title=\"article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foe.co.uk\/news\/government-allows-farmers-use-banned-bee-harming-pesticide?ic_number=32639537&amp;m_sourcecode=LM1507291&amp;product=NEWS&amp;utm_source=lyris&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=email&amp;MID=3865114&amp;hq_e=el&amp;hq_m=3865114&amp;hq_l=7&amp;hq_v=6714410453\">article<\/a>\u00a0on the matter by\u00a0Friends of the Earth. Please support the campaign to retain the ban on neonicotinoids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neonicotinoids are the world&#8217;s most widely-used insecticides, but they are harmful to bees. Bees, of course, are a crucial part of our environment, and they pollinate crops. These insecticides were banned from the European Union in 2013, but after pressure from the National Farmers&#8217; Union, the UK government has agreed to allow use of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}