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Three-quarters of all honey on Earth has pesticides in it

More bad news about neonics. This time, the neonics are finding their way into honey based on the results of a new study.

To get a better sense of just how widespread neonic contamination is, Mitchell and his colleagues analyzed 198 worldwide honey samples collected as a citizen science project between 2012 and 2016. They found that 75 percent of honey contained at least one of the five tested neonics, and 45 percent of samples had two or more. Honey from North America, Asia, and Europe was most contaminated, while the lowest contamination was in South America.

Read more here: The Verge : Bad news for bees: three-quarters of all honey on Earth has pesticides in it