By: Marlowe Hood A new class of insecticide—’can have a negative impact on the reproductive output of bumblebee colonies’ A new class of pesticides…
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A variety of neonicotinoids—harmful to aquatic organisms—are reported in major Great Lakes streams. The study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117344962) is the first to examine the insecticides—gaining notoriety…
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Daniel Cressey, in Nature Researchers have monitored the health of the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis-rufa), which nests in hollow cavities. Maj Rundlöf remembers…
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When a Cornell-led team of scientists analyzed two dozen environmental factors to understand bumblebee population declines and range contractions, they expected to find stressors…
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Dara Stanley, NUI Galway Plants sold at UK garden centres are tainted by a cocktail of pesticide residues, a study has found.1 The mix…
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Regardless of your opinion of what neonics are doing to pollinators in general, or honey bees in particular, the overview of this situation, and…
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