Study shows pesticide exposure can dramatically impact bees' social behaviors
For bees, being social is everything.
For bees, being social is everything.
Ecology
Nov 8, 2018
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It has long been known that agricultural pesticides are one of the greatest threats to bees and other essential pollinators. What farmers have lacked is an understanding of how different pesticides, applied at various times ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2024
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A chemical analyst and expert in micro-extraction at The University of Toledo created a more reliable, robust and efficient way to monitor pesticide exposure and help protect the health and safety of agricultural workers, ...
Biochemistry
Apr 6, 2023
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A new study by University of Maryland entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. When scientists modeled the effect ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2022
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Bees exposed to a neonicotinoid pesticide fly only a third of the distance that unexposed bees are able to achieve.
Ecology
Apr 29, 2019
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Scientists are urging for improved regulation on pesticides after finding that they affect genes in bumblebees, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with Imperial College London.
Ecology
Mar 7, 2019
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Pesticides significantly reduce the number of pollen grains a bumblebee is able to collect, a new University of Stirling study has found.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2017
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Honeybees - employed to pollinate crops during the blooming season - encounter danger due to lingering and wandering pesticides, according to an analysis of the bee's own food.
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2017
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A study in which free-foraging bee colonies were placed in the field has shown that pesticide exposure can affect colony development.
Ecology
Oct 12, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Reading, both in the U.K., has found via field study that one type of pesticide exposure led to impaired pollination services ...