Common pesticide damages honey bee’s ability to fly

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-common-pesticide-honey-bee-ability.html

Another nail in the coffin for the dreaded neonicotinoid class of pesticides? One can hope:

Months of testing and data acquisition revealed that typical levels of neonicotinoid exposure, which bees could experience when foraging on agricultural crops—but below lethal levels—resulted in substantial damage to the honey bee’s ability to fly.

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