Neonicotinoid pesticides pose ‘a major danger to pollinating insects’
Bad news for bees.
Tag: pesticides
Essential oils, a novel way to deal with a major pest
Organic farmers, rejoice!
Pesticide build-ups are contaminating Europe’s fields
You reap what you sow.
It’s official: pesticides are harming the bees
Perhaps it's time to consider a full-scale ban.
How to wash your apples to eliminate pesticides — according to science
Or you could just buy organic.
Pesticides linked to massive bee die off, largest study of its kind confirms
Yet another study -- the most important so far -- finds that neonicotinoids likely wipe out bees.
Pesticides threaten bees, birds and worms alike
A new study has shown that neurotoxic pesticides blamed for the huge drop in bee numbers are also equally affecting butterflies, ...
Measuring how effective certain insects are at pollinating
We've written extensively about the impending global disaster triggered by the crippling of bee populations worldwide at the hand of Colony ...
Honeybee dying population linked to pesticide
We've reported in the past about the frightening, ever growing cases of honeybee population dye-offs of the past few years, ...
Pesticides: Germany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastation
Photo by net_efekt In what is a laudable action, Germany has banned a family of pesticides that are blamed for ...
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