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The use of neonicotinoids—a common class of pesticides—has increasingly been linked to negative effects on bees by a number of scientific studies in recent times. Now, a team of researchers from ...

Amended versions of two bills intended to study or address the decline of native insect populations and insecticide spillover ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 24, 2025) Based on data collected from government sources and independent monitoring, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Connecticut finds that 46 ...

Neonicotinoids began dominating the agricultural market in the early 2000s, after being referred to as the "perfect" insecticide. Indeed, the compound made of synthetic nicotine acts as a neurotoxin ...

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EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 4 (UPI) --New research has found a widely used and increasingly controversial class of insecticide has "negligible" benefits for commercially grown soybeans. Pesticide makers ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 22, 2019) A two-year study, published March 14, finds that field-relevant contamination with the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid causes reduced body weight and ...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) last week published the findings of its peer review and evaluation of data from over 1,500 studies into the effect of neonicotinoid pesticides on both ...