When we reach the nearby village
of Birlistik, which
used to overlook a bay on the sea, we see that its mud - walled huts now face an
insecticide - laced desert, filled with tumbleweeds and toxic shrubs, that stretches as
far as the eye can see.
«This is an important paper that highlights the cocktail
of pesticides (
insecticides and fungicides etc)
used in agriculture, as well as providing
further context regarding the levels consumed by two key pollinator species — honey bees and bumble bees.