Biohazard

Pollinator preserved in sugar lollipop

For Groving Trail 2020, new works by artists placed daily on the streets of Bury St Edmunds, Grove Projects

Meeting this years prompt of Silver Spoon,

Biohazard

Recent research demonstrates that bees have a preference for neonicotinoid laced sugar solution, a pesticide that drastically affects their fitness or kills them depending on dosage.Use of three neonics in sugar beet seed treatment were banned in the UK in 2018 under EU law. As a member of the public, its a difficult subject to get to grips with despite our geographic immersion in this zone of innovation and conflict.