bees and insecticides

Pesticide Action Network UK Director Keith Tyrell told DW that focusing only on bee-safe pesticides was misguided, since insect loss also threatened ... The study, conducted by the University of Exeter, Rothamsted Research and Bayer AG, isolated the enzymes in bees that determine their sensitivity to ...

WHAT'S THE BUZZ Honeybees (shown) and bumblebees can resist a type of neonicotinoid insecticide thanks to a family of enzymes that metabolize toxic compounds. ... Neonicotinoids have been linked to negative effects on bee health, such as difficulty reproducing in honeybees (SN: 7/26/16, p 16).

Thousands of the bees littered the ground near the hive. Occasionally, a bee would stumble out of the hive and fall dying to the ground. Treisman doesn't know what wiped out the colony because toxicology tests cost about $1,000 for a single bee, but he thinks it is unlikely that parasites or a disease are ...

In an effort to prevent honeybee kills from toxic pesticides, the state is rolling out a new program to help beekeepers, farmers, and chemical sprayers to communicate and see where ... “For some farmers, especially like soybeans, they can get a 10 percent yield increase by having honeybees in that area.

A new scorecard released Tuesday finds that 20 out of 25 top food retailers fail to protect bees and people from toxic pesticides. The report ... Organic agriculture reduces pesticide use and supports 50 percent more pollinator species than chemical-intensive industrial agriculture. "Food retailers are failing to ...

Pesticides, insecticides and fungicides are used by farms, companies and the home gardeners to reduce or enhance production of our grains, ... The queen bee is not easily satisfied, and workers bees feed her constantly as she lays up to 1,500 eggs a day to keep the colony going and producing honey.

European farmers are facing a total ban on a common group of pesticides after a report confirms they harm bees, putting pressure on Australia to follow. The report published by the European Food Safety Authority [EFSA] analysed more than 1,500 studies and found three neonicotinoid pesticides posed a ...

Seen as an easy way to keep early-season pests at bay, this technology involves coating each seed with neonicotinoid insecticide (or neonics) so that farmers don't have to apply insecticides in the field. And it has become very popular within the industry. Non-organic corn farmers used to apply insecticides ...

“They've provided an incredibly useful service in illuminating how honeybees process toxins,” says May Berenbaum, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was not involved in the work. Given bees' routine exposures to pesticides as they forage for food and pollinate crops, ...

The issue is so severe that some bee populations dropped an alarming 44 percent in 2015, some pollinating bees were added to the Endangered Species List for the first time in 2016, and one in four bee species are at risk of extinction. Bees are fast-moving pollinators responsible for much of the produce ...