EPA Pollinator Protection Activities

Thomas Steeger, US EPA, Office of Pesticide Programs, Troy Anderson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

This presentation includes a brief overviews of:

• Pollinator declines
• The National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and other Pollinators
• The EPA pollinator risk assessment process: process for non-Apis bees
• The acute risk mitigation policy
• Toxicity of residues on foliage
• Managed pollinator protection programs
• Varroacide testing