AMES, Iowa – Significant growth in the monarch butterfly population will require planting more habitat on agricultural land, but that could put the species in close proximity to insecticides commonly ...

A higher diversity of flowering plants increases the breeding success of wild bees and may help compensate for the negative effects of insecticides. This is what researchers have found in a ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota researchers are examining how wild birds are affected by eating crop seeds treated with insecticide. Julia Ponder at the University of Minnesota’s Raptor Center has ...

Bumblebees are among the world’s most important groups of pollinating insects in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Each spring, queen bumblebees emerge from overwintering and initiate new nests, ...

A team of researchers peered inside bumblebee colonies and spied on insects individually labelled with a tiny tag to figure out exactly how exposure to a common insecticide changes their behavior in ...

Because people are concerned about the effects of aerial spraying on their health and the environment, entities that spray need to be transparent about it, Cedzo said. In addition, controlling the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 18, 2024) A recent study in The Journal of Toxicological Sciences shows that a single dose of the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin (CLO) induces behavioral abnormalities ...