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Loss of wild pollinators serious threat to crop yields, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
Originally posted on seeds for natural justice:
Loss of wild pollinators serious threat to crop yields, study finds | Environment | The Guardian. Wild bees and other insects twice as effective as honeybees in producing seeds and fruit on crops…
Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, horticulture
Tagged arthropod, conservation, crop, Europe, food, food security, forest, habitat fragmentation, hymenopteran, insect, plant_dicot, pollen, pollination, research, wild bee, wild pollinator, woodland
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Massive Bee Kill Update
Originally posted on Living With Insects Blog:
Yesterday, I posted about a massive bumblebee kill in Wilsonville, Oregon. At least 25,000 bumblebees were killed. The Oregon, Department of Agriculture (ODA) has tested bees and trees at the site and confirmed…
Posted in ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arthropod, bumblebee, clothianidin, dinotefuran, flower, honeybee, hymenopteran, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, law, neonicotinoid, pesticide, pollen, thiamethoxam, wild bee
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Bee killing isn’t only about neonics
A few weeks ago, great news! The European Union banned three ‘bee killers’ – neonicotinoid pesticides. Three neonics with the, er, catchy names clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. The ban will come into force on 1st December this year, and it … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arthropod, climate, clothianidin, conservation, corn, crop, dinotefuran, fipronil, flower, history, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, law, maize, nectar, neonicotinoid, pest, pesticide, phenylpyrazole, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, poison, politics, pollen, pollination, research, seed, sunflower, thiamethoxam, wild bee
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