Environmental Protection Grinds to Halt With Neonicotinoid Pesticides

摘要

Bees are most intriguing creatures. Type "bee behavior" into Google Scholar, and start reading abstracts. That search returns over 450,000 results. Find near the top L. Tison and colleagues' 2016 paper "Honey Bees' Behavior Is Impaired by Chronic Exposure to the Neonicotinoid Thiacloprid in the Field." The authors report "foraging behavior, homing success, navigation performance, and social communication were impaired." Once again, science has been caught in a regulatory war, this time over neonicotinoid pesticides.