Overall, the diminishing honeybee population is a complex issue – there are a variety of different subspecies around the world, each with different food sources, predators, and environmental issues.

Since 2013, a European Union (EU) moratorium has restricted the application of three neonicotinoids to crops that attract bees because of the harmful effects they are deemed to have on these insects.

It is now widely accepted that bee populations can be threatened by compounds called neonicotinoids, which are the most commonly used insecticides in the world. Neonicotinoids can also enter the human ...

Even as they try to help the bees, people may inadvertently poison them by planting pesticide-laden plants purchased from big-box garden centers, suggests a new report. More than half of ostensibly ...

California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation has proposed limiting the use of neonicotinoid insecticides on farms to protect pollinators. “At certain levels of exposure, neonicotinoids present ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Neonicotinoids are currently the most widely used pesticides in the world and frequently make headlines because of their harmful effects on honeybees and other insect pollinators. Now, a study ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain has found neonicotinoids represent an unexplored harmful exposure route to beneficial insects via honeydew. In their paper published ...

Three neonicotinoid pesticides—clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam—are each likely to adversely affect more than 1,000 endangered plants and animals, according to draft evaluations released ...

Some people believe that when a monarch lands on you, it’s a sign of positive change to come. Yet over the past several decades, monarch populations have experienced much negative change, undergoing ...

New research has identified the world’s most widely used insecticides as the key factor in the recent reduction in numbers of farmland birds. The finding represents a significant escalation of the ...

It is now widely accepted that bee populations can be threatened by compounds called neonicotinoids, which are the most commonly used insecticides in the world. Neonicotinoids can also enter the human ...