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Long-term study links neonicotinoids to wild bee declines

Reuters: Science - Posted: August 16th, 2016, 11:25am UTC

LONDON (Reuters) - Wild bees that forage from oilseed rape crops treated with insecticides known as neonicotinoids are more likely to undergo long-term population declines than bees that forage from other sources, according to the findings of an 18-year study.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=VcuPPSXhSgs:DZYfFoky4sI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=VcuPPSXhSgs:DZYfFoky4sI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=VcuPPSXhSgs:DZYfFoky4sI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=VcuPPSXhSgs:DZYfFoky4sI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=VcuPPSXhSgs:DZYfFoky4sI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/VcuPPSXhSgs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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