The Daily Camera The European Food Safety Authority stated, "Two neonicotinoid insecticides — acetamiprid and imidacloprid — may affect the developing human nervous system." The EU banned them in 2013. If you think the EPA is protecting us from dangerous chemicals, ...
St. Catharines Standard In December 2013, the European Union instituted a two-year moratorium, pending further studies, on three neonicotinoids (clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam). The moratorium was in answer to a January 2013 report from the European Food Safety ... and more »
Huffington Post They deliberately fed honeybee colonies the neonic pesticide imidacloprid in a dose-response experiment based on real-world pesticide levels: 5 and 20 µg/kg doses are in the reported high range of residues present in pollen and nectar in seed-treated ...
Feedstuffs The study, which was published March 18 in the journal PLOS ONE, looked at the effects of the insecticide imidacloprid on honeybee colonies over a three-year period. To see significant negative effects, including a sharp decrease in winter survival ... and more »
Nature.com They placed 20 colonies next to a field containing crops grown from seeds treated with the neonicotinoid clothianidin, 20 next to a field treated with another...
Farm Futures In the study, released last week in the journal PLOS ONE, bees were fed pollen dosed with imidacloprid . To see significant negative effects, including a sharp decrease in winter survival rates, the researchers had to expose the colonies to at least ...
Journal Times More specifically, trunk injection (e.g., emamectin benzoate) treatments are best applied once the leaves have fully developed, while soil drench or inject...
Blue Mountain Eagle House Bill 2589 would prohibit the application of “nitro-group” neonicotinoids, including clothianidin, dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam, but the Oregon Department of Agriculture could make exemptions to the ban in “unusual circumstances.”. and more »
Science Codex Imidacloprid is one of a broad class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, so named because they are chemically derived from nicotine. In tobacco and ot...
