“Endosulfan is being used since 1956 as insecticide and acaricide. It’s used as contact pesticide on plantations of fruits, vegetables and decoration plants and also for plant protection against sucking bugs (also against frost)…shows lowest toxicity to honeybees…(…)” – “Toxicology for Natural Environment - Introduction into theoretical and specialized toxicology”, reference book authored by Günter Fred Fuhrmann, a retired German professor of molecular pharmacology, at the Phillips University in Marburg, published by Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006.

“Humans will have only four more years after the bees disappear. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. Globally there has been an alarming drop in the honey bee population. Colony Collapse Disorder has affected over 36 states in the US, as well as Europe, South America and China. The US has lost 35 per cent of its bee population, and is losing 8 percent more every year. Honey bees are predicted to be extinct in the US by 2035. After CCD, it is likely to happen much sooner” – as reported in article by Kounteya Sinha and Arun Ram, The Times of India, Crest edition. For many decades researchers spoken of softness of Endosulfan to honey bees. Incidentally, most of the colony collapse have occurred in regions where Endosulfan was replaced with neonicotinoids.

Researchers have been reporting since many decades the softness of Endosulfan to honey bees. " Endosulfan were the least toxic to the Indian honeybees. Monocrotophos and Carbaryl were moderately toxic and the synthetic pyrethroids were the most toxic" - Prakash & kumarswami, 1984, Indian Bee Journal. "Endosulfan was very much safer to honeybees than the two organophosphate insecticides....(in Brassica crop)" - Needham & Stevenson, 1973, Annals of Applied Biology.