Now Lips and a batch of leading biologists and conservationists have penned a fresh plea. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
In addition to Barrows, the authors are Michelle Murphy - Mariscal, lead biologist for the Western Riverside Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and Rebecca Hernandez, an assistant professor at UC Davis who was previous a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. (sciencedaily.com)
His studies have shown that imidacloprid can impair honeybee memory and their ability to learn new odors, which leads biologists to suspect that forager bees exposed to this pesticide might become lost and die far from the hive. (discovermagazine.com)