Insecticides are becoming more toxic to honey bees
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 - 13:40
in Biology & Nature
During the past 20 years, insecticides applied to U.S. agricultural landscapes have become significantly more toxic -- over 120-fold in some midwestern states -- to honey bees when ingested, according to a team of researchers, who identified rising neonicotinoid seed treatments in corn and soy as the primary driver of this change.