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Monday, May 17, 2010

Go figure: bees and neurotoxins don't mix

Results are in from a pesticide ban in Italy, and it turns out that the mysterious colony collapse disorder that was decimating honeybee populations was the disorienting result of neurotoxins in "nicotine-based neonicotinoids" pesticides

Yet another example of the unintended consequences of a chemical policy that assumes things are safe. 

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