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30 January 2012

More Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Mass Bee Deaths | Common Dreams

Continuing saga of the bees...interesting article:

Bayer-produced imidacloprid harmful to bees even at very low levels

- Common Dreams staff

A new study published in Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature by a leading bee expert provides damning evidence that a widely used pesticide, even at low levels, is harmful to bees.

The pesticide that the study (pdf) looked at was imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides worldwide. It is neonicotinoid insecticide produced by Bayer CropScience.

via www.commondreams.org

Posted by Cathie Bird on 30 January 2012 at 06:38 PM in Agriculture, Earth Systems, Fish and Wildlife | Permalink

Technorati Tags: Bayer CropScience, honeybees, neonicotinoid, pesticides

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