The effects of pesticide exposure on pollinator health may be more complicated than originally thought, according to a team of researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences who recently ...

A new study has revealed a surprising wrinkle in our understanding of how pesticides affect bumble bees across the seasons.

Other harmful pesticides include acetamiprid, fludioxonil, pyrimethanil, and imidacloprid, all of which can damage the immune ...

Glyphosate is the most commonly used pesticide in the United States. 192,248 incidents involving imidacloprid, with 4,423 involving harm to people and most involving domestic animals. Imidacloprid is ...

Ecosystems face a combination of stressors that can interact in complex ways, leading to either synergistic (amplifying) or ...

Bumblebees exposed to the insecticide imidacloprid tend to contribute less to the welfare of their colony than untreated bees, according to a report in Science today (November 8). Inside their nests, ...

The Center for Food Safety, Western Environmental Law Center, Coalition to Protect Puget Sound Habitat and Center for Biological Diversity had intervened in the case to keep the harmful pesticide ...

lophanthae had 43% mortality with insecticidal soap, 63% mortality with imidacloprid, and 46% mortality with fish oil. Mortality rate for each beetle species rose with increasing concentration of each ...

In the study, the researchers examined the effects of imidacloprid, a common insecticide, on bumble bees. They found that while exposure to the insecticide was associated with shorter lifespans ...