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Wired Honeybees Show Harmful Impacts of Pesticides on Navigation
2013-07-29 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Using tiny radar antennae glued to the backs of honeybees, European scientists have found that bees exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides were more likely to become disoriented and separated from their hives. After attaching the small transponders to 200 bees, including some that were fed pesticide-laced syrup, scientists discovered that the exposed bees had difficulty navigating and were unable to retrace the path back to their hives. We find the control bees are just fantastic they use their landscape...
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