Bees are essential for one out of three bites of food we eat. But they are being wiped out by the widespread use of certain chemicals – specifically systemic insecticides, like neonicotinoids (“neonics” for short). Despite numerous scientific studies showing that these systemic insecticides are harmful to bees, EPA is actually proposing to expand the use of two such bee-toxic pesticides – thiamethoxam and sulfoxaflor.