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Title: With the ?bee crisis? fading and European farmers fearing an insect invasion, EU
Post by: bwallace23350 on January 10, 2019, 01:04:31 PM
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1

The future of a controversial agricultural pesticide remains very much in limbo, the victim of both scientific uncertainty and political malfeasance.

I am talking about neonicotinoids, a family of insecticides first deployed in the 1990s as an agricultural insecticide applied mostly as a seed coating and thought to be both more effective and less toxic to beneficial insects, including bees. Yet because of fears based on controversial and less-than-convincing laboratory studies that neonics, as they are called, might harm honeybees or wild bees, the European Union issued a moratorium in 2014 on their use. Since then, farmers in England have turned to other pesticides, which has turned out to be problematic ecologically for bees.
Title: Re: With the ?bee crisis? fading and European farmers fearing an insect invasion, EU
Post by: Acebird on January 11, 2019, 12:39:52 PM
Link sends me to an article on Earths magnetic field.
Title: Re: With the ?bee crisis? fading and European farmers fearing an insect invasion, EU
Post by: van from Arkansas on January 11, 2019, 03:56:32 PM
Yep, Ace, agreed, as usual I might add.  The matter has appeared to me: Ace when you text about bees and I respond, the word AGREED appears nearly 100 percent of the time.
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