Tag: neonicotinoids

Birds that have ingested seeds treated with a common insecticide experience weight loss and delay their migrations — effects that could reduce their chances of surviving and reproducing, researchers found....

When bees died as a result of improper pesticide application at a department store parking lot a few years ago, it made national news and raised concerns about the environmental...

Northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have been declining mysteriously throughout their range. In Texas, biologists have watched their numbers fall for three decades, but they’ve been unable to determine why. In...

Poor nutrition and pesticide use negatively impact bees on their own, but new research shows when these two factors work together, they cause even higher rates of bee mortality. “Most...