http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/03/29/new-study-shows-insecticides-used-on-flowering-crops-have-major-impacts-on-bumblebees/ Advancing ecology and making it count Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/03/29/new-study-shows-insecticides-used-on-flowering-crops-have-major-impacts-on-bumblebees/#comment-5965 Ecology and Policy Blog » Blog Archive » A countryside fit for pollinators Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:54:49 +0000 http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=2650#comment-5965 [...] effects on colony function for social bees – honey bees and bumblebees – as demonstrated in a seminal paper in Science last year, where exposure to neonicotinoids resulted in an 85% reduction in queen [...]

]]> http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/03/29/new-study-shows-insecticides-used-on-flowering-crops-have-major-impacts-on-bumblebees/#comment-5964 Ecology and Policy Blog » Blog Archive » Bees and neonicotinoid pesticides: acute risks identified by EU’s food safety authority Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:40:03 +0000 http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=2650#comment-5964 [...] activities and growth rates – see our previous blog post summarising one of the key articles here – DEFRA made no changes to regulation last summer. However, a number of investigations wereno [...]

]]> http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2012/03/29/new-study-shows-insecticides-used-on-flowering-crops-have-major-impacts-on-bumblebees/#comment-5961 Ecology and Policy Blog » Blog Archive » European Ombundsman investigating Commission’s progress on combating bee mortality Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:06:05 +0000 http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=2650#comment-5961 [...] the publication last month of new research showing a link between the use of common neonicotinoid insecticides and bee mortality, the European [...]

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