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bwallace23350
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With the ?bee crisis? fading and European farmers fearing an insect invasion, EU
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1
The future of a controversial agricultural pesticide remains very much in limbo, the victim of both scientific uncertainty and political malfeasance.
I am talking about neonicotinoids, a family of insecticides first deployed in the 1990s as an agricultural insecticide applied mostly as a seed coating and thought to be both more effective and less toxic to beneficial insects, including bees. Yet because of fears based on controversial and less-than-convincing laboratory studies that neonics, as they are called, might harm honeybees or wild bees, the European Union issued a moratorium in 2014 on their use. Since then, farmers in England have turned to other pesticides, which has turned out to be problematic ecologically for bees.
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Link sends me to an article on Earths magnetic field.
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Yep, Ace, agreed, as usual I might add. The matter has appeared to me: Ace when you text about bees and I respond, the word AGREED appears nearly 100 percent of the time.
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