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Royal Building Products, a Westlake company, will celebrate 50 years as a leading manufacturer of exterior building products, as well as the launch of new products and colors at the 2020 NAHB International Builders Show (IBS) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 21-23, 2020.

Royal Building Products traces its roots to Canada, where it was founded as Royal Plastics in Toronto, Ontario in 1970. Today, Royal Building Products is the largest extruder of cellular PVC components in North America, where it is known as a leader in design, best-in-class manufacturing and industry-leading innovation in the exterior building products category.

"With 50 years of innovation under our belts, we truly understand the unique challenges of our customers, including contractors, architects and builders," said Steve Booz, vice president, marketing, Royal Building Products. "This milestone demonstrates our commitment to those key stakeholders. They trust us to continue manufacturing the best building products in the industry and are the reason we can confidently look ahead to the next 50 years."

Royal will launch Atlas Stone Composite Stone Panels, as well as several new colors in Cedar Renditions and vinyl shake at the NAHB 2020 IBS. Attendees are encouraged to visit Royals booth #N913 to learn more about Royals extensive product lines.

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

New! Atlas Stone Composite Stone Panels

Available in February 2020, Royal launches Atlas Stone Composite Stone Panels. Atlas Stone boasts a contemporary stacked profile and selection of neutral to bold shades, making it the perfect exterior element for homes ranging from Ranch to Craftsman to Contemporary. With SandGrit technology, which replicates the texture of real stone, Atlas Stone panels are lightweight, durable and easy to install, demanding very little maintenance.

Atlas Stone is finished with a fade-resistant Kynar coating and able to withstand all weather conditions and climates. The product is backed by Royals industry-leading 50-year warranty.

Celect Canvas Unpainted Cellular Siding

Royal will feature Celect Canvas Unpainted Cellular Siding, an unpainted version of its industry-leading cellular composite siding that launched in June 2019. Celect Canvas features the same woodgrain aesthetics and low-maintenance benefits of the prefinished cellular siding offering, plus the ability to customize the color using thousands of exterior vinyl-safe paint shades that fall within the recommended light reflectance (LRV) rating of 50 and above.

Celect Canvas is available in 7" Clapboard, Board & Batten and 7" Shake. All Celect Cellular Siding offerings feature a patented interlocking seam design, which keeps moisture out and virtually eliminates seams.

Celect Cellular Composite Siding

Celect Siding replicates the beauty and aesthetics of wood while remaining low maintenance and durable for a lifetime. Celects profiles7" Smooth, 7" Clapboard, 7" Shake and Board & Battenare available in 15 fade-resistant colors and feature a patented interlocking seam design, which keeps moisture out and almost completely eliminates seams.

Royal will also showcase Celect Mounting Blocks, which are crafted from the same state-of-the-art cellular materials as Celect premium siding, and effortlessly combine form and function. Available Celect mounts include Standard Mount, Recessed Split Mount, Universal Block, Gang Block, Electrical Mount and Gable Vent.

Zuri Premium Decking by Royal

Zuri Premium Decking combines the natural beauty of exotic hardwood with unsurpassed durability and exceptionally low maintenance requirements to create a one-of-a-kind outdoor living environment. Zuri is available in Square Boards and in Grooved Boards, which offer a truly hidden fastener application with pre-threaded screws for fast installation. Zuri Grooved Boards are offered with a 3/32" spacing or a 3/16" gap.

New at IBS 2020, Royal will also launch Zuri Fascia boards in 8" and 12" profiles.

All of the Zuri products are available in Chestnut, Walnut, Pecan, Brazilia and Weathered Gray, and are backed by a 25-year Color Fastness Warranty against color shifting.

Cedar Renditions by Royal Design Series

Launched to the U.S. market in 2019, the Cedar Renditions Design Series is a sleek and modern accent siding, providing exceptional curb appeal without the maintenance or flammability issues of wood. LEED compliant and 100% recyclable, the Design Series combines durable, thicker gauge aluminum, wider board contemporary wood aesthetics and streamlined looks.

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In 2020, Royal adds a new premium color, Grey Oak, and a new traditional color, Spanish Moss, to its 6" Cedar Renditions Design Series aluminum siding profiles available in the U.S.

Royal Spec Series Trim

Designed to pair with any type of siding, including Celect, vinyl, fiber cement, and engineered wood, Spec Series Trim is a lightweight and easy to install accessory featuring a 5/8" board-like appearance, 2" deep pocket and 3/4" pocket width. It has a factory-finished resin coating, and components are available in outside corner post, inside corner post and wide-faced trim.

New Colors! Royal Building Products and Exterior Portfolio Vinyl Siding

Royal Vinyl products featured at IBS 2020 will include Haven Insulated Siding, Estate, and Portsmouth Shake & Shingles. Exterior Portfolio products will include CraneBoard Solid Core Siding, Market Square and Portsmouth Shake & Shingles.

Six new trending colors have been added to the Portsmouth Shake & Shingle line: Sedona Shadow, Mountain Ash, and Rustic Gray. Under Weathered, the new colors are Cottonwood, Aged Pewter and Stonehedge.

All Royal and Exterior Portfolio siding products are backed with an industry-leading warranty, as well as Chromatix technology color protection, which warrants the products to as low as three Hunter units of fade, keeping dark shades true. The Royal booth will also showcase its Triple 3-1/3" Soffit, which is available for both Exterior Portfolio and Royal lines.

Royal Building Products PVC Column Wraps

New at IBS 2020, Royal introduces a tapered version of its PVC Column Wraps. Royals Column Wraps feature a unique "clam shell" design with three pre-assembled sides that surround the existing post for a quick installation and seamless appearance. The fourth side is applied to enclose the entire column. Made from 100% cellular polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Royals Column Wraps are resistant to moisture, preventing issues found in traditional wood columns, such as warping, rotting and insect damage. The Column Wraps come ready-to-install in a White or Sand Dune finish but can also be painted to complement a homes exterior color palette. Royal Column Wraps are available in Traditional, Craftsman and Builder styles.

Royal Conceal Trim System

Made for building professionals who appreciate easy installation and style-forward design, the Conceal system offers accessories to cover every seam and complement every kind of Royal siding and exterior material. Made from 100% cellular PVC, Conceal products have no exposed seams, are moisture and termite proof, and feature a "True Square" edge design for clean installation.

Royal SurEdge Trimboard

SurEdgeTM Trimboard can be used in countless ways to trim a home and add long-lasting beauty and value. It has precisely defined 90-degree corners that help amplify the curb appeal of a range of home stylesfrom Ranch to Colonial to Craftsman. Installation is seamless and clean thanks to the products perfectly square edges, and all of its building aesthetics come with the time-saving low maintenance of 100% cellular PVC.

Royal Nickel Gap and Shiplap

Royals Nickel Gap and Shiplap products combine interior old world charm with the technology of cellular PVC to reduce moisture concerns, and can be installed vertically or horizontally in exterior and interior trim applications. The shiplap trend is timeless, easily achievable and has applications for nearly every room in the home, such as kitchen backsplashes, bathroom accent walls and mudroom hallways.

Royal Shutters, Mounts & Vents

Royal Shutters, Mounts and Vents are easy to install and effortlessly complement a wide variety of siding, trim and mouldingsmeeting the homeowners and contractors need for design, low-maintenance and durability.

EXTERIOR DESIGN

Design Tools

For those who want to "try it before they buy it," Royal has five online design tools to provide contractors and homeowners with the ultimate exterior home design experience. Each design tool offers all product lines, profiles and colors, as well as product comparisons, larger images, expert designers top color combinations and preselected color palettes. The three siding design tools also include good, better and best trim options, as well.

Royals online design tools include:

LiveAbode

A comprehensive guide for exterior design and outdoor living inspiration, LiveAbode is a Royal Building Products online publication that offers the latest trends, tips, DIYs and style advice to homeowners. Featuring content from Royals experts and regular contributors, LiveAbode is an unmatched resource for homeowners, designers and contractors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

About Royal Building Products

Royal Building Products, a Westlake Chemical company (NYSE: WLK), manufactures and distributes leading materials for the home remodeling, building and construction markets. For 50 years, the companys commitment to quality, innovation and customer relationships has attracted the loyalty of a growing number of building professionals, homeowners, architects, engineers and distributors to its products. With operations throughout Canada and the United States, Royal Building Products offers the renovation, remodeling and new construction industries a broad range of innovative products, including siding, trim, accessories, soffit, rainware, mouldings and decking. For more information, please visit http://www.royalbuildingproducts.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram and "Like" us on Facebook.

Disclaimer:

The information presented is made available solely for general information purposes. All sales of Royal Building Products trim, mouldings, siding, and other exterior building products are subject to Royal Building Products standard terms and conditions of sale, which are available upon request. Royal Building Products makes no other warranty, express or implied, including, but not limited to, any warranty of merchantability or fitness for particular purpose. Royal Building Products and the Royal Building Products logo are registered trademarks of Royal Building Products (USA) Inc.

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Kriss SwintRoyal Building Products614-754-3455kswint@royalbp.com

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1. Etex Group NV2. James Hardie Industries PLC3. Evonik Industries AG4. Compagnie De Saint Gobain SA5. Toray Industries Inc6. CSR Limited7. The Siam Cement Public Company Limited8. NICHIHA Co.,Ltd9. Plycem Corporation10. Cembrit Holding A/S

Global Fiber Cement Siding Market which has been compiled after an in-depth analysis of the market trends prevailing across five geographies (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Africa, and South America). Various segments of the market such as type/components/ application/industry verticals/ end-users are analyzed with robust research methodology which includes three step process starting with extensive secondary research to gather data from company profiles, global/regional associations, trade journals, technical white papers, paid databases etc. followed by primary research (interviews) with industry experts/KOLs to gain their insights and views on current scenarios and future scope of the market as well as validating the secondary information, further internal statistical model is used to estimate the market size and forecasts till 2027.

Fiber cement siding is a construction material used for covering the exterior of residential and commercial buildings. It consist of a mixture which includes sand, portable cement, fly ash and cellulosic fiber. When combined, these materials make a highly durable product which offers resistance to water and provides warranty coverage for about 30-50 years. There are various types of fiber cement siding available in the market namely clapboard, shingles and stone or stucco.

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Table of Contents1. Introduction 402. Global Fiber Cement Siding Market Key Takeaways 423. Global Fiber Cement Siding Market Market Landscape 454. Global Fiber Cement Siding Market Key Market Dynamics 585. Global Fiber Cement Siding Market Analysis 636. Fiber Cement Siding Market Global Regulatory Scenario 687. Global Fiber Cement Siding Market Analysis By Product 768. Global Fiber Cement Siding Market Analysis By Application 1069. Global Fiber Cement Siding Market Analysis By End User 11510. North America Fiber Cement Siding Market Revenue and Forecasts to 2027 11811. Europe Fiber Cement Siding Market Revenue and Forecasts to 2027 14112. Asia Pacific Fiber Cement Siding Market Revenue and Forecasts to 2027 16313. Middle East and Africa Fiber Cement Siding Market Revenue and Forecasts to 2027 18614. South and Central America Fiber Cement Siding Market Revenue and Forecasts to 2027 20815. Fiber Cement Siding Market Industry Landscape 22016. Fiber Cement Siding Market Key Company Profiles 22617. Appendix 267

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Because it holds a 49% share of the e-commerce market, when Amazon speaks, its vendors listen. Thats why, when Bullet Tools, of Hayden, ID, a manufacturer of fixed-blade cutting tools for the construction industry, needed to redesign its packaging for a product sold on Amazon, it made sure to meet the online retailers new requirements for minimal, protective, and sustainable packagingespecially with financial penalties hanging in the balance.

Bullet Tools, as its tagline explains, offers Cutting-Edge Solutions for Tradesmen. This includes flooring, siding, and insulation cutters, along with blades and accessories. Its point of differentiation is that its cutters allow for dust-free installation. In particular, unlike its competitors tools, Bullets EZ Shear Laminate Flooring Cutter does not produce a (potentially deadly) cloud of silica dust, which means installers can use it to cut flooring without the need for vacuums, filters, or breathing protection.

Despite the innovative nature of the tool, Bullet was finding it difficult to get the product in front of potential customers. Selling the EZ Shear through Amazon offered the company a way to increase exposure and sales. But it soon realized that using the same packaging for online sales as it did for retail did not provide the needed product protection, and was costly and labor intensive to assemble.

In redesigning the packaging, Bullet worked with packaging supplier Multifab Packaging and protective packaging manufacturer Great Northern Laminations. The resulting shipper reduces corrugated materials and costs, provides greater product protection, is easy to assemble, andmost importantlymeets Amazons Frustration-Free Packaging (FFP) requirements.

Product protection for online sales

Bullet Tools cutters are sold by dealers at retail locations across the U.S. and worldwide, but it was e-commerce that really helped grow sales of the companys EZ Shear cutter. Getting our EZ Shear Laminate Flooring Cutter on the Internet means that when people search how to cut hardwood, our cutters come up, says Joshua Brand, Bullet Tools Purchasing & Inventory Manager. Since Amazon is the third most popular search engine in the world, having our products listed and reviewed there has created customers who might not otherwise know about Bullet Tools and has spurred tremendous growth.

While its cutter was a hit online, its packaginga double-wall corrugated case with insertswasnt. The EZ Shear is designed New packaging for Bullet Tools flooring cutter uses two laminated paperboard edge protectors riveted together that are placed into the bottom of the case for product protection.with a hefty blade and cutting mechanism located on one side, with the rest of the tool comprising a lightweight table for feeding product under the blade. Picture something akin to a paper cutter, but much larger. Having the majority of the weight on one side created challenges, as the feet and corners often broke through the packaging. Not only that, but as volumes rose, the packaging system became too costly, time consuming, and labor intensive. A new packaging design would need to address these issues, as well as be certified to meet Amazons packaging requirements.

In September 2018, Bullet Tools, along with thousands of other North American companies, was notified by Amazon that it was rolling out a new incentive program (see article in Packaging World, "Amazon's New Sustainable Packaging Program Puts the Customer First") that it explained was designed to drive more sustainable packaging in order to reduce waste and damage and delight customers. The announcement advised vendors they would need to design their packaging to meet Amazons Frustration-Free Packaging Program Certification Guidelines by Aug. 1, 2019 or face a chargeback of $1.99 per unit.

Amazons Vendor Incentive Program applies to all items larger than 18 x 14 x 8 in. or 20 lb or morespecifications that definitely describe Bullets productsand requires that their packaging is designed and certified as Tier 1 FFP or Tier 2 Ships In Own Container (SIOC). According to Amazon, That means theyll be right sized, protective against damage, ready-to-ship without the need for additional packaging, and ideally easy to open and recyclable.

Recognizing the importance of their Amazon sales and the negative impact of using packaging that frustrates the consumer, Bullet Tools turned to Shane Lynch, Account Manager at Multifab. Lynch asked Bullet Tools what their number-one goal was for redesigned packaging, and they responded that it was impact protection for the head of the tool.

Custom engineered solution cuts packaging costs

To help redesign the EZ Shear packaging to protect the product while meeting Amazons requirements, Lynch reached out to Great Northern Laminations, a provider of corner and edge protection solutions and a member the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS) since January 2019. The APASS network is made up of packaging designers, suppliers, and labs that have received guidance from Amazon to help test, design, and supply packaging in line with its packaging certifications.

Lynch approached Great Northern with an eye toward using a custom version of its PF PalletTop product as a potential solution. PF PalletTop pallet edge protectors were designed to provide an alternative to traditional wooden pallet tops to help stabilize and unitize pallet loads while protecting them from shipping and strapping damage.

To package the product, the operator loads the cutter into the PF PalletTop edge protector, and then loads the product with protector into the shipping case.PF PalletTop is made by riveting two pieces of Great Northerns notched VBoard laminated paperboard edge protectors together to form a square or rectangular shape to fit the tops, sides, or bottoms of palletized loads. According to the supplier, PF PalletTops are much lighter and less bulky than wooden pallet tops, are easier for employees to handle, and are less costly to ship. In addition, it says, the hinged construction of the PF PalletTop allows it to fold for efficient storage and then unfold for application to the pallet.

Together, Multifab and Great Northern reengineered the PF PalletTop for use by Bullet Tools. PF PalletTop was a product we used for brick-and-mortar packaging, but were changing the way we use it because e-commerce is changing the way people shop, and we needed to create packaging to meet their expectations, says Greg Seidel, Laminations Account Manager.

With e-commerce, protection is so important because there are typically more touchpoints and opportunities for damage before it reaches the customer, he adds. It can literally go from manufacturer to distribution center to transfer point to shelf then off the shelf to conveyor to truck to customer. This is in comparison to traditional shipping, where it just goes from distribution center to truck to store to customer.

With the reengineered version, a PF PalletTop edge protector is inserted directly into the bottom of the box, rather than on the outside, as is the case with the original product, to provide extra protection for the cutter. Notes Lynch, The PalletTop successfully reinforces the corners of the package, especially the heavier end. It has allowed the customer to go from a 51 ECT [Edge Crush Test] double-wall corrugated box to a 44 ECT single-wall box, has eliminated all the corrugated inserts, and has reduced material costs by 40 percent.

Adds Brand, This solution stops the product from breaking through standard boxes without any extra assembly time. Its cost-efficient, easy to store, and looks nice for the end user.

An additional benefit to the new e-commerce packaging, which Bullet Tools is now using for retail as well, is its sustainability. The edge protector is made out of 100% recycled material and is 100% recyclable. Because the new packaging for the EZ Shear was minimal and sustainable, Bullet Tools easily passed Amazons Frustration-Free Packaging ISTA 6 Amazon SIOC Tier 2 certification testing. Says Brand, We are 100-percent satisfied with the new packaging solution, and Amazon is completely satisfied as well.

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This Report Covers Leading Companies Associated in Worldwide Market:

Rentokil Initial plc.FMC CorporationSyngenta AGArrow Exterminators Inc.Ecolab, Inc.Bayer AGBASF SEThe Terminix International Company LPBell Laboratories Inc.Rollins, Inc.

Summary of Market: The global Insect Pest Control market is valued at xx million US$ in 2019 is expected to touch xx million US$ by the close of 2026, growing at a CAGR of xx% during 2020-2026.

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The report is bifurcated into product type, applications, and regions worldwide. The above areas are further bifurcated into country-level data statistics for the below countries.

The key regions and countries covered in this report are:

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Global Insect Pest Control Market Segmentation, By Product Type:

ChemicalPhysical & mechanicalBiologicalOther methods (Environment control services and radiation)

Global Insect Pest Control Market Segmentation, By Application:Commercial & industrialResidentialLivestock farmsOthers (Post-harvest applications and transportation)

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To find development and challenges for the global market.

To observe worthwhile expansions including expansions, new services presents in worldwide industry.

To classify and assess the side view of important companies of Global Insect Pest Control industry.

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How is the Insect Pest Control market expected to Grow In Terms Of Value during the study period?

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Table of Content

1 Report Outline

1.1 Research Opportunity

1.2 Major Industrialists

1.3 Market Segment by Type

1.4 Market Segment by Application

1.5 Study Objectives

1.6 Years Considered

2 Global Evolution Trends

2.1 Production and Volume Analysis

2.1.1 Global Insect Pest Control Production Value 2015-1406

2.1.2 Global Insect Pest Control Production 2015-2026.

2.1.3 Global Insect Pest Control Capacity 2015-2026.

2.1.4 Global Insect Pest Control Marketing Pricing and Trends

2.2 Major Producers Growth Rate (CAGR) 2020-2026.

2.2.1 Global Insect Pest Control Market Size CAGR of Major Regions

2.2.2 Global Insect Pest Control Market Share of Major Regions

2.3 Industry Trends

2.3.1 Market Top Trends

2.3.2 Market Operators

3 Market Share by Industrialists

3.1 Capacity and Production by Industrialists

3.1.1 Global,Insect Pest Control Capacity by Industrialists

3.1.2 Global Insect Pest Control Production by Industrialists

3.2 Revenue by Industrialists

3.2.1. Insect Pest Control Revenue by Industrialists (2015-2020)

3.2.2. Insect Pest Control Revenue Share by Industrialists (2015-2020)

3.2.3 Global Insect Pest Control Market Concentration Ratio (CR5 and HHI)

3.3. Insect Pest Control Price by Industrialists

3.4 Major Industrialists of Insect Pest Control Plants/Factories Distribution and Area Served

3.5 Date of Major Industrialists Enter into Insect Pest Control Market

3.6 Major Industrialists Insect Pest Control Product Offered

3.7 Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion Plans

4 Market Dimensions by Type

4.1 Production and Production Rate for Each Type

4.2 Global Insect Pest Control Production Market Share by Type

4.3 Global Insect Pest Control Production Value Market Share by Type

4.4. Insect Pest Control Ex-factory Price by Type

5 Market Size by Application

5.1 Overview

5.2 Global Insect Pest Control Consumption by Application

6 Production by Regions

6.1 Global Insect Pest Control Production (History Data) by Regions 2015-2020.

6.2 Global Insect Pest Control Production Value (History Data) by Regions

6.3 North America

6.3.1 North America Production Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.3.2 North America Production Value Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.3.3 Major Players in North America

6.3.4 North America Import & Export

6.4 Europe

6.4.1 Europe Production Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.4.2 Europe Production Value Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.4.3 Major Players in Europe

6.4.4 Europe Import & Export

6.5 China

6.5.1 China Production Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.5.2 China Production Value Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.5.3 Major Players in China

6.5.4 China Import & Export

6.6 Japan

6.6.1 Japan Production Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.6.2 Japan Production Value Growth Rate 2015-2020.

6.6.3 Major Players in Japan

6.6.4 Japan Import & Export

7. Insect Pest Control Consumption by Regions

7.1 Global Insect Pest Control Consumption (History Data) by Regions

7.2 North America

7.2.1 North America Consumption by Type

7.2.2 North America Consumption by Application

7.2.3 North America Consumption by Countries

7.2.4 United States

7.2.5 Canada

7.2.6 Mexico

7.3 Europe

7.3.1 Europe Consumption by Type

7.3.2 Europe Consumption by Application

7.3.3 Europe Consumption by Countries

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Published: 1/22/2020 3:30:28 PM

Dave Estey turns over a branch of evergreen needles while walking on the snowmobile trail behind the Wilton Reservoir. Underneath, so small they are only apparent upon a close look, are small, white dots.

There it is, Estey said.

The it ishemlock woolly adelgid, an east Asian insect thats become a troublesome invasive species in the United States. It only impacts hemlock trees, but once it has taken hold on a specimen, it can completely kill the tree.

The aphid-like insect covers itself in a white, waxy substance that gives it its name, and will spend almost all its lifecycle in one place, only moving right after hatching to find a suitable feeding spot, and then attachingto the hemlock tree feeding on the sap at the base of the needles. This eventually kills the needles, and without the needles, the tree itself starves to death.

Estey, who only lives a short distance from the reservoir, said he first noticed a few trees with the infestation while walking his dog in the area.

Im always looking at the trees and keeping an eye out for things I know are a problem, he said. Finding it that close means Im going to have it [near my home] soon.

The woolly adelgid looks like tiny cotton puffs, no larger than one-sixteenth of an inch, clustered along the bottom of hemlock branches.

Hunter said he hasnt seen the trees around the reservoir that have been impacted, but hes aware the woolly adelgid is in Wilton, having found it on trees in the towns conserved Heald Tract.

Theyre very significant, because they kill the trees they infest, Wilton Conservation Commission Chair Bart Hunter. There are very few treatments for it, and what treatments there are wouldnt work well on acres and acres of hemlock.

While there are spray treatments to deal with the pest, Hunter said, treating large amounts of trees is expensive, and usually the solution becomes to cut down the infested tree.

The pest is not a new phenomenon in New England. The woolly adelgid was first found in the United States in the 1920s, it has mainly been found in New England and the mid-Atlantic states. It was first found in New Hampshire in the year 2000 in Portsmouth. Today, infestations have been recorded in more than half the towns in the state, and in nearly every county.

Hemlock is a commercial wood, though not as popular as other conifers such as pine and spruce, and its bark is a common landscaping mulch. It also has value as a food source for wildlife who eat the seeds dispersed from its cones, and as habitat, because hemlock stands tend to grow thickly together. They also are associated with erosion control.

If you lost the hemlock, youd lose a significant and important tree, Hunter said.

TheN.H. Division of Forests and Lands has been tracking woolly adelgid infestations and has written an action plan for addressing the issue. For more information, visitwww.nh.gov/nhdfl/.

All possible sightings of suspect infestations in uninfested counties must be reported to the Forest Health Program at 464-3016. Infestations in already infested counties should also be made to the Forest Health Program in order to track the spread. Infested nursery stock should be reported to the Division of Plant Industry at 271-2561.

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In September 2009, over 3,000 bee enthusiasts from around the world descended on the city of Montpellier in southern France for Apimondia a festive beekeeper conference filled with scientific lectures,hobbyist demonstrations, and commercial beekeepers hawking honey. But that year, a cloud loomed over the event: bee colonies across the globe were collapsing, and billions of bees were dying.

Bee declines have been observed throughout recorded history, but the sudden, persistent and abnormally high annual hive losses had gotten so bad that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had commissioned two of the worlds most well-known entomologists Dennis vanEngelsdorp, a chief apiary inspector in Pennsylvania, then studying at Penn State University, and Jeffrey Pettis, then working as a government scientist to study the mysterious decline. They posited that there must be an underlying factor weakening bees immune systems.

We exposed whole colonies to very low levels of neonicotinoids in this case, and then challenged bees from those colonies with Nosema, a pathogen, a gut pathogen, said Pettis, speaking to filmmaker Mark Daniels in his documentary,The Strange Disappearance of the Bees, at Apimondia. And we saw an increase, even if we fed the pesticide at very low levels an increase in Nosema levels in direct response to the low-level feeding of neonicotinoids.

The dosages of the pesticide were so miniscule, said vanEngelsdorp, that it was below the limit of detection. The only reason they knew the bees had consumed the neonicotinoids, he added, was because we exposed them.

Bee health depends on a variety of synergistic factors, the scientists were careful to note. But in this study, Pettis said, they were able to isolate one pesticide and one pathogen and we clearly see the interaction.

The evidence was mounting. Shortly after vanEngelsdorp and Pettis revealed their findings, a number of French researchers produced a nearly identical study, feeding minute amounts of the same pesticide to bees, along with a control group. The study produced results that echoed what the Americans had found.

Drifting clouds of neonicotinoid dust from planting operations caused a series of massive bee die-offs in northern Italy and the Baden-Wrttemberg region of Germany. Studies have shown neonicotinoids impaired bees ability to navigate and forage for food, weakened bee colonies, and made them prone to infestation by parasitic mites.

In 2013, the European Union called for a temporary suspension of the most commonly used neonicotinoid-based products on flowering plants, citing the danger posed to bees an effort that resulted in a permanent ban in 2018.

In the U.S., however, industry dug in, seeking not only to discredit the research but to castpesticide companies as a solution to the problem. Lobbying documents and emails, many of which were obtained through open records requests, show a sophisticated effort over the last decade by the pesticide industry to obstruct any effort to restrict the use of neonicotinoids. Bayer and Syngenta, the largest manufacturers of neonics, and Monsanto, one of the leading producers of seeds pretreated with neonics, cultivated ties with prominent academics, including vanEngelsdorp, and other scientists who had once called for a greater focus on the threat posed by pesticides.

Syngenta AGs headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, on Feb. 4, 2015.

Photo: Philipp Schmidli/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The companies also sought influence with beekeepers and regulators, and went to great lengths to shape public opinion. Pesticide firms launched new coalitions and seeded foundations with cash to focus on nonpesticide factors in pollinator decline.

Position the industry as an active promoter of bee health, and advance best management practices which emphasize bee safety, noted aninternal planning memo from CropLife America, the lobby group for the largest pesticide companies in America, including Bayer and Syngenta. The ultimate goal of the bee health project, the document noted, was to ensure that member companies maintained market access for neonic products and other systemic pesticides.

The planning memo, helmed in part by Syngenta regulatory official John Abbott, charts a variety of strategies for advancing the pesticide industrys interests, such as, Challenge EPA on the size and breadth of the pollinator testing program. CropLife America officials were also tapped to proactively shape the conversation in the new media realm with respect to pollinators and minimize negative association of crop protection products with effects on pollinators. The document, dated June 2014, calls for outreach to university researchers who could be independent validators.

The pesticide companies have used a variety of strategies to shift the public discourse.

Americas Heartland, a PBS series shown on affiliates throughout the country and underwritten by CropLife America, portrayed the pollinator declines as a mystery. One segment from early 2013 on the crisis made no mention of pesticides, with the host simply declaring that experts arent sure why bees and butterflies were disappearing.

Another segment,released in January2015, quickly mentions pesticides as one of many possible factors for honeybee deaths. A representative of the North American Bee Care Program, Becky Langer, appeared on the program to discuss the exotic pests that can affect the bees. The program does not mention Langers position as a spokesperson for Bayer focused on managing fallout from the bee controversy.

Michael Sanford, a spokesperson for PBS KVIE, which produces Americas Heartland, wrote in an email to The Intercept that consistent with strict PBS editorial standards and our own, sponsors of the show provided no editorial input.

Bayers advocacy, designed to position the firm as a leader in protecting bee health, included a roadshow around the country, in which Bayer officials handed out oversized ceremonial checks to local beekeepers and students. The firm hosts splashy websites touting its leadership in promoting bee health and sponsors a number of beekeeping associations.

Meanwhile, Bayer has financed a series of online advertisements that depict individuals who fear that its pesticide products harm nontarget insects as deranged conspiracy theorists.

Honeybees have captured almost all the attention for the dangers of neonics, but they are hardly the only species in decline because of the chemical.

Other forms of influence have been far more covert.

Communications staff with CropLife America compiled a list of terms to shape on search engine results, including neonicotinoid, pollinators, and neonics. One of the consulting firms tapped to coordinate the industrys outreach, Paradigm Communications, a subsidiary of the public relations giant Porter Novelli, helped lead the effort to shift how pesticide products were portrayed in search engine results.

A slide prepared by Paradigm Communications showcases its push to decoupleGoogle search results for bee decline with neonic pesticides.

The greatest public relations coup has been the push to reframe the debate around bee decline to focus only on the threat of Varroa mites, a parasite native to Asia that began spreading to the U.S. in the 1980s. The mite is known to rapidly infest bee hives and carry a range of infectious diseases.

CropLife America, among other groups backed by pesticide companies, has financed research and advocacy around the mite an effort designed to muddy the conversation around pesticide use. Meanwhile, research suggests the issues are interrelated; neonics make bees far more susceptible to mite infestations and attendant diseases.

Bayer even constructed a sculpture of the Varroa mite at its Bee Care Center in North Carolina and at its research center in Germany, hyping its role as the primary force fueling the decline of pollinators.

A model of honeybee with a Varroa mite on its back at Bayers Bee Care Center in Monheim am Rhein, Germany, on Nov. 19, 2013.

Photo: Joanna Nottebrock/The New York Times via Redux

The stunningly successful campaign has kept most neonic products in wide circulation in commercial agriculture as well as in home gardens. The result is a world awash in neonics and massive profits for companies such as Syngenta and Bayer, which now counts Monsanto as a subsidiary.

Millions of pounds of the chemical are applied to 140 commercial crops every year. In the U.S., nearly all field-planted corn and two-thirds of soybean use neonic-coated seeds. The chemical is found in soil samples from coast to coast, in waterways and in drinking water. Neonics, which are water soluble, have been detected in the American River in California, the River Waveney in England, tap water in Iowa City, and hundreds of other streams and rivers across the world. In Brazil last year, after President Jair Bolsonaros government approved dozens of new pesticides, the use of neonics caused the death of more than 500 million bees across the country.

In August, a study publishing in peer-reviewed journal PLOS One found that the American landscape has become 48 times more toxic to insects since the 1990s, a shift largely fueled by the rising application of neonics.

Honeybees have captured almost all the attention for the dangers of neonics, but they are hardly the only species in decline because of the chemical. Studies have tied neonics to the disappearance of native bees, butterflies, mayflies, dragonflies, amphipods, and a range of waterborne insects, as well as earthworms and other insect invertebrates. Several species of bumblebees in the U.S. and Europe are approaching extinction, a die-off researchers say is tied to the use of neonics and other pesticides.

In September, a study released in the academic journal Science revealed that migrating songbirds suffered immediate weight loss following the consumption of only one or two seeds treated with neonics. Previous research had linked disappearing insect life to dwindling food sources for birds in the Netherlands, but the Science study provided the evidence that bird species were directly affected by the chemical.

Another groundbreaking study published in NaturesScientific Reportsshowed that neonics are likely causing serious birth defects in white-tailed deer, the first time research has shown that the chemical compound could endanger large mammals.

Bees are the canary in the cornfield, said Lisa Archer,from Friends of the Earth. The science linking pesticides to the extinction crisis has grown.

Scientists are only now taking a closer look at the potential impact of neonics on humans and other mammals.

Bees are the canary in the cornfield, said Lisa Archer, the food and agriculture program director at Friends of the Earth. The science linking pesticides to the extinction crisis has grown.

Dave Goulson, a professor of biology at the University of Sussex, told The Intercept, I think perhaps we are reaching a tipping point where people finally begin to appreciate the importance of insects, the scale of their decline, and that blitzing the landscape with pesticides is not sustainable or desirable.

Bayer and Syngenta reject any claim that their neonic products are harming the environment.

Neonicotinoid products are critically important tools for farmers, and are approved for use in more than 100 countries due to their strong safety profile when used according to label, said Susan Luke, a spokesperson for Bayer Crop Science North America, in a statement to The Intercept. This is why Bayer continues to strongly support their continued safe use, even though the manufacture of neonic products is not a major part of our business.

Research claims that have been made questioning neonic safety all share common flaws, such as exposure levels that far exceed real-world scenarios, and the flawed idea that exposure to substances in the environment necessarily means harm,adds Luke. It does not, otherwise no one would go swimming in chlorine or drink caffeinated coffee.

Since neonicotinoids were introduced in the 1990s, honey bee colonies have been increasing in the United States, Europe, Canada and indeed around the world, Chris Tutino, a spokesperson for Syngenta, claimed in a statement to The Intercept. He added that most scientists and bee experts agree that bee health is affected by multiple factors, including parasites, diseases, habitat and nutrition, weather and hive management practices.

Tutino, in his email, noted that the neonic compound thiamethoxam, used in popular Syngenta products such as Cruiser and Dividend, had undergone extensive tests evaluating effects on pollinators, and provided links to five studies, all of which were produced by Syngenta consultants or employees.

Neither company responded directly to questions about the role of neonic products in fueling declines of butterflies, dragonflies, and other insect species beyond bee populations. Both companies highlighted company funding for honeybee health research.

The chemical industrys comments were disputed by Willa Childress, an organizer with Pesticide Action Network North America.While its true, Childress noted, that managed honeybee hive populations are growing, that is because of the commercial value of honeybees in pollinating a vast array of American agriculture. Beekeepers on average now lose around40-50 percent of hives every year, wellup from historical averages of10 percent. Many commercial beekeepers are forced to constantly divide hives and buy queens to maintain hive populations, with many relying on government subsidies to scrape by.So no, honeybees arent doing better than ever, said Childress. And the scientists do agree that multiple interacting factors are driving pollinator decline, including, as chemical companies neglect to mention, pesticide use.Honeybees will not go extinct in our lifetimes, noted Childress. But, she added, data on native bees and wild pollinators is far more apocalyptic than even the most concerning reports on honey bee losses. Unprecedented numbers of wild pollinators are facing extinction and we have very limited data on a number of other pollinators that are at risk.

Not long ago, action in the U.S. to restrict neonics seemed imminent.

The pressure began to build in 2010 after Tom Theobald, a beekeeper in Boulder, Colorado, obtained an internal Environmental Protection Agency report showing that the agencys own scientists had sharply criticized the research used to permit the sale of one of the most popular lines of neonic products.

In 2003, Bayer had secured the temporary right to use clothianidin, a neonic used widely for corn and canola, from the EPA under the condition that the company conduct a chronic life cycle study showing how use of the neonic would affect honeybees by the end of the following year.

The Bayer-funded study, led by Cynthia Scott-Dupree, an environmental sciences professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, placed hives in clothianidin-treated fields of canola and hives in untreated fields of canola. The tests found little variation between the two sets of hives, but researchers later pointed out that the hives in the study were placed only 968 feet apart from one another. Honeybees forage for pollen up to six miles from their hives.

Scott-Dupree was later appointed the Bayer CropScience Chair in Sustainable Pest Management at the University of Guelph. Regulators in Canada and at the EPA used the study to clear clothianidin for unconditional use. Internally, however, EPA scientists expressed concerns.

The memo, written by two EPA scientists, noted that the previous Bayer-funded study failed baseline guidelines for pesticide research and warned that clothianidin posed a major risk concern to nontarget insects (that is, honey bees).

A dizzying array of research began pointing to problems with neonics. Despite claims that the compound represents a form of precision agriculture, a growing body of research shows that the chemical strays far from targetedcrops, often traveling with the wind during planting operations, remaining in the soil for long periods of time, leaching into waterways, and causing acute problems for a wide variety of insect and animal life.

In 2014, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon, introduced legislation to compel the EPA to take steps to suspend the pesticides. That year, in response to growing controversies around bee decline and the demands for greater accountability over loosely regulated pesticide use, President Barack Obama issued an executive memorandum calling attention to the significant loss of pollinators, including honey bees, native bees, birds, bats, and butterflies.

Activists picketed the White House demanding action. Beekeepers and environmentalist groups filed lawsuits challenging the registration status of major neonic products, claiming that EPA had violated its own protocols when licensing products from Bayer and Syngenta. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a decision to phase out neonics in wildlife refuge areas in the Pacific region.

Around the country, legislators in states across the country proposed bills to restrict neonics. In Minnesota, a bill was signed into law to prevent nurseries from marketing plants as pollinator-friendly if they had been treated with neonics.

For a while, the movement seemed to be gaining traction, which some hoped would lead the U.S. to mirror the EU in moving to regulate the widely used insecticide.

In the end, little changed. The settlements related to the lawsuits removed small-market neonics. The private-public partnerships that grew out of the Obama memorandum lacked any enforcement mechanism to restrict neonic use in agriculture. President Donald Trump rescinded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule. Minnesota legislators quickly repealed the labeling requirement a year after it was passed.

Aftera hearing in which he pointed to pesticides, Jeffrey Pettistoldthe Washington Post that hewas criticized him for failing to follow the script.

In almost every other state, with the exception of Vermont, Connecticut, and Maryland, lobbyists from the pesticideand agribusiness industrysuccessfully killed any significant restriction on neonic products. The scientific community, once focused on studying the impact of pesticides, became splintered, with many of the leading voices going to work for industry or industry-backed nonprofits.

Critics of neonics were quickly sidelined. In April 2014, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture then chaired by Rep. Austin Scott, a Georgia Republican convened a hearing to discuss the pollinator crisis. The event featured David Fischer, a Bayer official, and Jeff Stone, lobbyist for commercial nurseries. Both men used the hearing to warn against any restrictionson neonics in response to bee decline. The third, Dan Cummings, a representative of the Almond Board, a trade group for almond growers, focused on the threat of the Varroa mite.

A fourth witness, the Department of Agriculture researcher Jeffrey Pettis thescientist who had collaborated with vanEngelsdorp noted that unlike traditional pesticides, neonics are found in pollen, increasing exposure to bees. Under questioning from Scott, the committee chair, Pettis reiterated that even without mites, bees would still be in decline, and pesticides raise concern to a new level.

After the hearing, Pettis told the Washington Post that he spoke privately with Scott, who criticized him for failing to follow the script.

CropLife America, notably, celebrated the hearing performance for its heavy focus on nonpesticide-related factors for bee decline. One thing that we hope was made clear during the hearing was the crop protection industrys commitment to addressing this issue, Jay Vroom, then the president of CropLife America, said in astatement.

Campaign finance records show that CropLife America, just weeks after the hearing, gave$3,500 to Scott, who then sponsored legislation to solve the bee crisis through exemptions to expedite the approval of pesticides used to control the Varroa mite.

And two months after the hearing, according to the Post, Pettis was demoted, losing his role managing the USDA bee lab in Beltsville, Maryland. Pettis later left the government and now serves as president of Apimondia.

Entomologist Jonathan Lundgren, who is researching answers for what might be causing the dwindling honeybee population, on Jan. 9, 2016.Photos: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post/Getty Images

The Post also details the story of a prominent USDA scientist, Jonathan Lundgren, who researched the dangers posed by neonics to pollinators and spoke publicly about the issue. In 2015, Lundgren suddenly faced suspensions and an internal government investigation over misconduct, a push he believes was motivated by industry for his role in speaking out on pesticides.

I guess I started asking the wrong questions, pursuing risk assessments of neonicotinoids on a lot of different field crop seeds used throughout the U.S. and how they were affecting non-target species like pollinators, Lundgren told The Intercept.

The USDA did not respond to The Intercepts request for comment. It told the Post that the suspensions had nothing to do with his research. They were for conduct unbecoming a federal employee and violating travel regulations.

Lundgren now runs Blue Dasher Farm in South Dakota, a research effort to develop ways to rotate diverse sets of crops as a way to increase yields and suppress pests naturally. There are few institutions, he noted, where researchers can pursue science independent of industry influence. Universities have become dependent on extramural funds, entire programs are bankrolled by these pesticide companies, chemical companies,headded.

The regulatory system in the U.S. assumes chemical products are generally safe until proven hazardous.

Generally, we see the U.S. waiting longer than the EU to take action on a variety of pesticides and other chemicals,said Childress,the organizer with Pesticide Action Network North America. Part of the divergence, Childress continued, stems from a regulatory system in the U.S. that assumes chemical products are generally safe until proven hazardous. In contrast, the EU tends to use the precautionary principle, removing products that may cause harm, and requiring proof of safety before allowing them to return to market.

Another major factor, Childress noted, is the widespread corporate capture of American regulatory institutions. The EPA, for instance, employs 11 former lobbyists including its administrator, Andrew Wheeler, who previously worked for coal interests in opposition to climate regulationsin senior positions.

The pesticide industry also maintains a long history of underhanded methods to discredit its critics.

Monsanto deployed aggressive tactics to punish critics of Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world and the companys marquee product over the last several decades. Emails released through ongoing litigation in California last year showed that the firm used its lobbyists to orchestrate a campaignin Congress to criticize and defund scientists with the World Health Organizations cancer research affiliate, after that body had declared that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is a probable carcinogen. Many of the documents detailing Monsantos role in shaping the public discourse around glyphosate were released during the course of class-action lawsuits filed by cancer victims whoblame the company for their illnesses.

Syngenta became infamous after its tactics against University of California, Berkeley Professor Tyrone Hayes were reported. Hayess research showed that the companys signature herbicide, atrazine, appeared to disrupt the sexual development of frogs.

The company dispatched people to follow and record Hayes at public speaking events, commissioned a psychological profile of the professor, and worked with a variety of writers to smear Hayes as non-credible and a liability to academics who considered working with him. The effort to sideline Hayes and his research, which included coordination with industry-friendly academics, was revealed in a series of court documents that were disclosed over litigation involving claims that Syngenta had polluted local water sources with atrazine.

In the two lawsuits against Syngenta and Monsanto, subpoenaed documents revealed that both Syngenta and Monsanto maintain a list of third party stakeholders, including free market think tanks and scientists the industry could turn to for messaging support.

Many of the think tanks and individuals included in the roster now play a prominent role in the neonic debate. The American Council on Health and Science, which has relied on corporate funding from Monsanto, Bayer, and Syngenta, has published overa dozen articles disputing the dangers posed by neonics.

In one email revealed through the Monsanto-Roundup litigation, Daniel Goldstein, a Monsanto official, wrote to colleagues in all-caps to support the councils work: I can assure you I am not all starry eyed about ACSH- they have PLENTY of warts- but: You WILL NOT GET A BETTER VALUE FOR YOUR DOLLAR than ACSH. The bottom of the email included hyperlinks to articles criticizing demands to regulate both glyphosate and neonic pesticides.

The Heartland Institute, one of the think tanks in Syngentas third-party stakeholder list, which has received Bayer donations in the past, has published articles deriding research critical of neonics as junk science.

The pesticide industry is using Big Tobaccos PR tactics to try and spin the science about their products links to bee declines and delay action while they keep profiting, said Archer, whose group, Friends of the Earth, has documented the lobbying tactics of pesticide makers.

When neonics hit the market three decades ago, they were the first new class of insecticide invented in nearly 50 years, and their use skyrocketed.

As early as the late 17th century, farmers found that they could grind tobacco plants and use nicotine extract to kill beetles on crops. Nicotine acts as an organic insecticide, binding to nerve receptors and causing paralysis and death in aphids, white flies, and other plant-eating insects.

Attempts to use nicotine for a mass-market pesticide, however, frustrated scientists. In early research, sunlight diluted the effectiveness of nicotine-based products. But that changed just over three decades ago, when Bayer scientists at Nihon Bayer Agrochem, the firms Japanese subsidiary,first synthesized neonicotinoids in the 1980s a compound that not only withstood heat and sunlight, but could be applied to the root or seed of a plant and remain effective for that plants entire lifespan.

Neonics were hailed as the Goldilocks compound because they are not too hard, not too soft, but just right.

The new chemical came just in time. Farmers and regulators were seeking alternatives to another class of pesticides organophosphates, nerve agents sprayed on crops that had been found to cause cancer in humans. Initial studies of neonics showed that the compound was acutely toxic to insects but unlikely to cause harm to mammals.

As one scientist for Bayer described the invention in a 1993 Science magazine article hailing the introduction of the new class of chemicals, neonics were the Goldilocks compound because they are not too hard, not too soft, but just right.

And because seeds could be pretreated with neonics, which were absorbed and expressed through the tissue, nectar, and pollen, they could be also produced on an industrial scale, providing agriculture crops with an efficient insect-killing capability without the need for expensive spray treatments or constant reapplication.

In other words, farmers could soak the ground and seeds with enormous amounts of the compound to avoid problems from pests in the future. The delivery mechanism saved money for farmers but set the conditions for chronic overuse of the pesticides.

Estimated agricultural use of imidacloprid. Information compiled from the U.S. Geological Surveys Pesticide National Synthesis Project.

Map: USGS National Water-Quality Assessment, The Intercept

The first commercial neonic, imidacloprid, was registered with the EPA in 1994 and sold as a potato seed treatment. Business boomed as neonic products spread worldwide to Japan, France, Germany, and South Africa. In the U.S., it became a popular standard seed and root treatment for corn, cotton, soybeans, almonds, and a range of fruits and vegetables.

Neonics were even used for household applications. Bayer produced imidacloprid as a flea treatment on pets throughout the U.S. The Advantage line of flea control took off, with a marketing campaign featuring the Jack Russell terrier Eddie from the television show Frasier and a 30-foot inflatable flea in Times Square.

Chemical Week called the introduction of neonics a renaissance for the U.S. insecticides industry providing environmentally friendly products. The Columbus Dispatch, in an article for home gardeners about ways to deliver a surgical strike against pests, called for consumers to consider Bayers Merit soil treatment, which the paper called virtually non-toxic.

The swift adoption of the compound instantly made Bayer, which had previously profited largely from its pharmaceutical line of products, a worldwide player in the agrochemical industry.

Imidacloprid is our most important product,the head of Bayers pesticide division told investors in 2008.

In 2003, at a forum hosted by Goldman Sachs, Bayer listed Confidor, Premise, and Gaucho, several seed treatments based on neonic compounds, among its top-performing products in a presentation outlining the companys performance metrics. Another investor presentation, given by Bayer executives in Lyon, France, projected rapid growth from the neonic products, estimating that the firm, which had sales of close to 400 million euros from the portfolio in 1998, would more than double to 850 million euros by 2010.

Imidacloprid is our most important product, Friedrich Berschauer, then-head of Bayers pesticide division, told investors during a conference call in 2008, according to a transcript of his remarks. Company disclosures underscore Berschauers remarks: During that fiscal year, the company reported 932 million euros in sales for its top two neonic compounds.

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CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) Its becoming more common for people to have home security cameras to keep watch of their property, and law enforcement agencies are using it to their advantage.

Theyre a witness that never sleeps, NYS Trooper Kerra Burns says of home security cameras, theyre almost always on, most of them are motion activated.

Trooper Burns says home security cameras, like systems from Ring, Nest, or Swann, often urge the perps to turn back around before they commit an offense.

[If a] bad guy walks up your driveway, notices theyre on camera, maybe you have a motion light that goes off, Trooper Burns says, and they actually will turn around and walk away, so they are a great deterrent.

If they choose to go through with their suspicious behavior, Trooper Burns says the home surveillance video can be key to an investigation, even from the house next door.

There are times where weve had neighbors who have maybe had their car broken into, Trooper Burns says, and when we go in and do neighborhood interviews later, its actually their neighbors camera that picks up some of the people coming onto their land.

All you really need is the camera itself, and a smartphone or computer to watch a live feed of whats going on right outside your door. In many cases, you can install the system yourself.

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A security camera by itself works great as a crime deterrent. The majority of criminals target low-hanging fruit, and any hint of a security system will tell them that your home would be more trouble than its worth to break into. But what if the camera went beyond that and could recognize if an intruder had a weapon, or determine if a visitor was someone you knew? The Wazo Home Security System is powered by artificial intelligence and is capable of recognizing dangerous objects like guns or knives, and can then alert both you and the authorities within seconds.

The Wazo Home Security system uses these capabilities to do more than just home security, too. It can also recognize when someone falls and then alert both you and emergency services. Wazo built this functionality into the system to respond to the number of dangerous falls that happen each year; according to the company, more than 600,000 people are seriously injured by falls each year. By detecting these falls and alerting relevant authorities as soon as they happen, Wazo hopes to avoid some of the most severe injuries.

Finally, the system also boasts facial recognition. The A.I. learns the face of its main user, as well as the faces of friends and family. This adds a level of personalization to the alerts by letting users know when someone is at the door, but it also makes the system more secure because it alerts users if someone unfamiliar has arrived.

Wazo says there will be no monthly cost associated with monitoring and that the company has the lowest three-year cost of any home security system. A release date for the Wazo Home Security System has not yet been given, but the companys demonstration at CES 2020 drew a lot of attention. If youre interested in staying on top of the development cycle for the system, you can sign up for updates on the companys website.

While there may be a lot of security systems on the market, features like weapon and fall detection set Wazo apart from a lot of the competition. The facial recognition is another strong feature that gives the system a lot of potential to go beyond just home security and become an integral part of a connected home.

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