Endosulfan is soft to bees and beneficial insects

Kim Flottum who is a bee keeper and Editor of Bee Culture magazine says that 2009 has the worst honey crop on record. “If you like honey, you should buy it now...and buy a lot." Bee colonies are collapsing, a phenomenon known as “colony collapse disorder”.

Many crops need honey bees for pollination. No honey bees, no pollination.

Pesticides that are highly toxic to bees include bifenthrin, carbaryl, chlorpyrifos, diazinon cypermethrin, dimethoate, imidacloprid, malathion, methoxychlor, methyl parathion, oxydematon-methyl, permethrin, pyrethrins, resmethrin, rotenone, sabadilla etc.

Endosulfan is soft to bees and beneficial insects. http://www.apvma.gov.au/products/review/docs/endosulfan_ir_overview.pdf
“endosulfan has relatively low toxicity to many species of beneficial insects, mites and spiders (that is, ones which prey upon or parasitise damaging insect pests). Other chemicals, necessarily substituted for endosulfan, would kill beneficial insects leading to population explosions of damaging pests which in turn would require more frequent sprays of harsher chemicals than if endosulfan had been used in the first place.”