Field Research on Bees Raises Concern About Low-Dose Pesticides
On 30 March 2012 Science published 2 studies and a comment on neonicotinoid insecticides and pollinator decline:- A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees -...
View ArticleNew Nature study: Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual-...
Abstract: Reported widespread declines of wild and managed insect pollinators have serious consequences for global ecosystem services and agricultural production1, 2, 3. Bees contribute approximately...
View ArticlePollinators and Global Food Security: the Need for Holistic Global Stewardship
Over the past decades, both wild and domesticated insect pollinators are in dramatic decline, which puts at stake the existence of species, ecosystem resilience and global food security. Globally, 87...
View ArticleInsect decline, an emerging global environmental risk
A new paper in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability reports that the Earth’s entomofauna seems in an ongoing state of collapse. Insect decline could pose a global risk to key insect-mediated...
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