Neonicotinoids and bees: Despite EU moratorium, insecticides still detectable
Sunday, December 1, 2019 - 16:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Since 2013, a European Union 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. Yet researchers have just demonstrated that residues of these insecticides can still be detected in rape nectar from 48% of the plots of studied fields, their concentrations varying greatly over the years.