'There's now no question that neonicotinoids play an outsized role in our heartbreaking extinction crisis,' said LoriAnnBurd of CenterForBioDiv. EPA must 'ban these pesticides so future generations don't live in a world without bees and butterflies.'
likely jeopardize the continued existence of 166, 199, and 204 plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act , respectively. This includes 25 distinct insects, more than 160 plants reliant on insect pollination, and dozens of fish, birds, and invertebrates.
Species being put at risk of extinction include the whooping crane, Indiana bat, Plymouth redbelly turtle, yellow larkspur, Attwater's greater prairie-chicken, rusty patched bumblebee, Karner blue butterfly, American burying beetle, Western prairie fringed orchid, vernal pool fairy shrimp, and the spring pygmy sunfish.
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