I would like to commend the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks' decision to limit the use of neonicotinoids on the county's parkland. Howard, along with Montgomery County, is setting an admirable example for other counties in terms of pollinator protection which, of course, should be celebrated and replicated. However, with hive losses as high as 60 percent, we simply don't have time to wait for individual counties to ban neonicotinoids on their own. What we really need is a ban at the federal level.