The choice was between clean soil or soil contaminated with one of five common pesticides, including insecticides and fungicides, across different concentrations. The School of Environmental ...
“Some bee behaviours are not well understood, and we wanted to see if these bumblebee queens exhibited avoidance behaviour that might reduce their risk of harm from pesticide exposure in the field,” ...
The duo tested five common pesticides at both low and high concentrations. They based the amounts of poison they used on measurements Dr. Rondeau had taken at farms and apple orchards in Southern ...