“It’s a very natural environment here,” said Raul Vásquez, a farm employee. “The government is not allowed to sell us chemicals – this could be the reason why the bees aren’t dying here” as they have been in other places. Bee keepers in the United…
Check out this webinar from The Ohio State University about Pesticides and Poisons in the Hive from May, 2016 by Reed M. Johnson. The webinar is about 56 minutes long. Read more here: Pesticides and Poisons in the Hive: an Overview of Bee Toxicology Share…
Startling discovery found in the results of the study done by entomologist Christian Krupke, and associate professor Elizabeth Long. The pollen samples represented up to 30 plant families and contained residues from pesticides spanning nine chemical classes, including neonicotinoids – common corn and soybean seed…
