New pesticides may harm bees as much as existing ones - study

Ability of bumblebees to reproduce, and rate at which colonies grow, compromised by new sulfoximine-based insecticidesA new class of pesticides positioned to replace neonicotinoids may be just as harmful to crop-pollinating bees, researchers have warned.In experiments, the ability of bumblebees to reproduce, and the rate at which their colonies grow, were both compromised by the new sulfoximine-based insecticides, they reported in the journal Nature. Continue reading...