Farmers Guardian In January 2013, EFSA published risk assessments examining the effects on bees of the neonicotinoids clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. Thes...
Nature.com (blog) A two-year restriction on the neonicotinoids clothianidin , imidacloprid and thiametoxam will come into force on 1 December, preventing their use in s...
Focus News The insecticides -- imidacloprid and clothianidin produced by Bayer, and thiamethoxam by Syngenta -- are used to treat seeds and are applied to the soil or sprayed on bee-attractive plants and cereals. Bees account for 80 percent of plant pollination ...
Wall Street Journal The insecticides--clothianidin and imidacloprid, made mainly by German chemical giant Bayer AG (BAYN.XE), and thiamethoxam , made by Syngenta (SYNN....
AgraNet (subscription) ... have major implications as a previous report by the agency on threats to bee health (see AE2549, 22.01.13) led the European executive last w...
Watch List News (press release) The European Commission has proposed prohibiting the sale and use of clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid on crops attractive to bees, including sunflower, rapeseed, corn and cotton. It would also ban sale and use of seeds treated with the three ... and more »
European Voice Three other pesticides used for seed treatment were temporarily banned last month after an EFSA report in January identified a possible risk to bees – the neonicotinoids clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam . EFSA found that Fipronil, produced by ... and more »
The Slovak Spectator Nemec referred to the US government's latest report on the disappearance of honeybees, which downplays the role of the pesticides in colony collapse, citing instead parasitic mites, multiple viruses, bacteria, poor nutrition, genetics and habitat loss.
