How do we reduce pesticide use while empowering farmers? A more nuanced approach could help
Pesticides threaten humans, wildlife and our environment. Food production must change.
Pesticides threaten humans, wildlife and our environment. Food production must change.
Ecology
May 14, 2024
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As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is driving up temperatures around the world—and bumblebees, like humans, are struggling to cope with homes that can't beat the heat.
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2024
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Bumblebees appear to be quite resistant to common pesticides. This is shown by a new study, the results of which have now been published by scientists from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in the journal Environment ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2024
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A new study has confirmed that pesticides, commonly used in farmland, significantly harm bumblebees—one of the most important wild pollinators. In a huge study spanning 106 sites across eight European countries, researchers ...
Ecology
Nov 29, 2023
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Bumble bees have a remarkably successful method for fighting off Asian hornets, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2023
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As the sun sets, bumblebees revisit "profitable" flowers they encountered during the day, new research suggests.
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2022
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Bumblebee colonies exposed to glyphosate are significantly affected in times of resource scarcity. Dr. Anja Weidenmüller, biologist at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2022
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Larger bumblebees are more likely to go out foraging in the low light of dawn, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
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A mite that spreads a dangerous virus among honeybees also plays an indirect role in infecting wild bumblebees, new research shows.
Ecology
Jun 12, 2019
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Bumblebees acquire a taste for pesticide-laced food as they become more exposed to it, a behaviour showing possible symptoms of addiction.
Ecology
Aug 28, 2018
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