Are Neonics Killing Local Bees?
Are Neonicotinoids Killing The Local Bees Population? By ED BARBER Staff Writer Vermont, has approximately 900 registered beekeepers, but when you include the many…
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Honeydew Exposes Beneficial Insects To Deadly Insecticides. Adjuvants Not As Benign As Previously Thought Verges Provide A Vital Refuge For Pollinators According to a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pesticides Used In Crop Protection Have A Significant Negative Impact On Learning And Memory In Bees.
A large-scale study has drawn together the findings of a decade of agrochemical research to confirm that pesticides used in crop protection have a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Efforts to Create Pesticides that are Not Toxic to Bees Have Been Boosted by a Scientific Breakthrough.
A joint study by the University of Exeter, Rothamsted Research and Bayer AG has discovered the enzymes in honey bees and bumblebees that determine…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Neonicotinoids: Risks to Bees Confirmed.
Most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, according to assessments published today by EFSA. The Authority has updated…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – U.S. Scientists Found Neonicotinoid Insecticides In About Three-Quarters Of Samples From 10 Major Great Lakes Tributaries.
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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CATCH THE BUZZ – Neonicotinoids Vote Nears As Lobbying Steps Up In The EU. Total Ban May Be In The Works.
By: Matthew Appleby – HORTICULTURE WEEK The European Commission is proposing an extension of the ban to all outdoor crops, this will be discussed…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A California Appeals Court Slammed The State Department Of Pesticide Regulation In Mid-Sept., Finding The Agency Didn’t Consider Alternatives.
NICK MCCANN A California appeals court slammed the state Department of Pesticide Regulation in mid-Sept., finding the agency didn’t consider alternatives before approving two…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Exposure To Pesticides In Colonies In The AG Areas Did Not Result In Measurable Impacts On Colony Productivity
Sixteen honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies were placed in four different agricultural landscapes to study the effects of agricultural landscape and exposure to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Common insecticides are riskier than thought to predatory insects
Penn State Neonicotinoids — the most widely used class of insecticides — significantly reduce populations of predatory insects when used as seed coatings, according…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Neonicotinoid pesticides foster spider mite outbreaks
By Roxanne Lee The pesticide has garnered negative attention recently, in part because of a spider mite outbreak it caused in New York. In…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Neonicotinoids Lawsuit
By David Sparks Ph.d, Download Report: Neonicotinoids_Lawsuit.mp3 Should seeds coated with neonicotinoids be regulated as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Neonicotinoid-contaminated pollinator strips adjacent to cropland reduce honey bee nutritional status
Christina L. Mogren & Jonathan G. Lundgren Worldwide pollinator declines are attributed to a number of factors, including pesticide exposures. Neonicotinoid insecticides specifically have…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Neonicotinoids can jeopardize the normal development of honey bee larvae.
Alan Harman European researchers say they have found a previously unknown and harmful effect of neonicotinoids on honey bees – neonicotinoids in low and…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Neonics Killing Bees from Wildflowers
By: Alan Harman New British research finds that 97% of the neonicotinoids brought back to honeybee hives in pollen could come from wildflowers –…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Native Bees Foraging in Fields are Exposed to Neonicotinoid Insecticides and other Pesticides
Released: 11/4/2015 11:30:00 AM According to the first-ever study of pesticide residues on field-caught bees, native bees are exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides and other…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Native Bees Exposed to Pesticides too
Alan Harman The first-ever study of pesticide residues on field-caught bees finds native bees are being exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides. The…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Second Study Looks at Neonicotinoids and Pollinators
Alan Harman An international group of pollination experts has published a second summary in as many years on the scientific evidence about the effects…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Still More On Neonicotinoids
Alan Harman Bumblebees more at risk from neonicotinoids. (Photo by Barbara McClellan) An international group of pollination experts has published a second summary in…
Read MoreCATC H THE BUZZ – Low Doses of Insecticides Similar to Nicotine Found in about Half of Sampled Streams across the United States
Released: 8/18/2015 11:00:00 AM USGS discovered insecticides known as neonicotinoids in a little more than half of both urban and agricultural streams sampled across…
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