The Economist -
28 Jun 2017 22:48

Or not to bee NEONICOTINOIDS are so good at killing things which suck the sap and chew the flesh of crops that they have become the world's most widely used family of insecticides. For decades, though, there has been a fear that they harm non-crop-eating insects, too--in particular, bees. The evidence for this has been mixed. Swedish research published in 2015--two years after the EU imposed a moratorium on the use of three popular neonicotinoids, clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam--fou...
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