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Neonicotinoid pesticides are the likely culprit. Companies that produce them have been sinking large sums of money into studies that search for alternative expl
by wiremaus 7y ago
Neonicotinoid pesticides are the likely culprit. Companies that produce them have been sinking large sums of money into studies that search for alternative explanations, and responses that don't simply consist of eliminating neonics.
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/bees-insecticides-pesticides-neonicotinoids-bayer-monsanto-syngenta/ https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/bees-insecticides-pestic...
- ars 7y agoFrance banned those pesticides more than a year ago, but their rates of colony collapse did not go down, if anything they went up. So neonicotinoid pesticides are probably ruled out as the culprit.
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoThe replacement is probably just as bad. I've seen industrial scale pesticide application in the U.S. Doesn't matter what you're spraying, it's going to cause Problems in the quantities that they use.