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Extensive Study Concludes Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees

posted by martyb on Saturday July 01 2017, @05:10AM   
from the be-nice-to-bees dept.

takyon writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40382086

The most extensive study to date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes that they harm both honeybees and wild bees. Researchers said that exposure to the chemicals left honeybee hives less likely to survive over winter, while bumblebees and solitary bees produced fewer queens.

The study spanned 2,000 hectares across the UK, Germany and Hungary and was set up to establish the "real-world" impacts of the pesticides. The results are published in Science [open, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa1190] [DX]. Neonicotinoids were placed under a temporary ban in Europe in 2013 after concerns about their impact on bees. The European Commission told the BBC that it intends to put forward a new proposal to further restrict the use of the chemicals.

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• Re:damn well better (hint: bees are insects) (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @08:07PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 01 2017, @08:07PM (#533979)

  Shill said

  Complete and utter rubbish

  Do you get paid for these posts even though you post as AC?

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