Sentences with word «neonics»

Jay Vroom, CEO and spokesman at CropLife America, a trade partnership of seed and pesticide manufacturers, says studies measuring the effect of neonics on bees in field conditions «consistently demonstrate no negative effects.»

The European Commission last year proposed — but has not yet adopted — extending a partial ban on neonics to all field crops.

«Reducing use of neonics in Ontario is a welcome and necessary first step towards banning these harsh, bee - killing chemicals across Canada,» said Lisa Gue, David Suzuki Foundation senior researcher and analyst.

«We hope other provinces and the federal government take notice of today's announcement and move toward banning neonics in Canada.»

The company says it decided to phase out neonics from its home and garden products after reviewing possible threats posed to bees and other pollinators.

«Based on European countries» experience with neonic restrictions, we look forward to healthier pollinator populations and sustained crop yields in years to come.»

«Neonic pesticides threaten wild bees» spring breeding, study finds.»

At high doses these insecticides, called neonics for short, can also poison bees.

Much of the controversy, and concern, has centered around a particular class of neonicotinoid pesticides (neonic for short), which yield billions in revenue for chemical - makers.

And the effect was consistent even when bees received neonics in amounts too small to be detected in their system.

Dr Alan Dewar: «My business carries out contract field trials for the ag - chem industry and I was also involved in independent assessments of the first and subsequent neonic seed treatments in the sugar beet crop when employed at Broom's Barn.

The bees fed neonics proved more susceptible to Nosema.

«Everyone wants an easy answer, a sole culprit, but neonics don't seem to be the single driver.

A recent scientific literature review conducted by researchers in the U.K., Japan, France and Italy concluded that exposure to systemic insecticides, including neonics, renders bees more susceptible to numerous diseases.

«Despite the clear and present danger neonics present and the questionable benefits, Canada has been inexplicably slow to react — until now,» Gue added.

On average, there wasn't a difference between groups in how long the birds hung around before resuming migration, but all of the birds that waited an abnormally long time had eaten neonics.

Worse, as Pettis and vanEngelsdorp demonstrated, exposure to neonics also appears to compromise the bee's immune system.

But under questioning, he declared that neonics raise the danger for bees to «a new level.»

But neonics remained in wide use.

The January 2016 paper, published in Environment International, identifies two popular neonics, clothianidin and imidacloprid, as disturbing immune signaling in the bee, promoting the replication of illnesses like deformed wing virus (DWV).

Sublethal effects are treated as less urgent, yet neonics subject bees to a variety of sublethal effects with long - term, fatal consequences.

In April 2016, a group of Bayer shareholders publicly demanded that corporation executives «turn away» from neonics because they are linked to bee declines.

(In Australia, where neonics are heavily used but there are no varroa mites, honeybee colonies remain healthy.)

«Neonics put bumblebees at risk of extinction by hindering colony formation, study reveals: Exposure to thiamethoxam reduces the chances of a bumblebee queen starting a new colony by more than a quarter.»

There have been multiple reports outlining the detrimental effects of neonics under lab exposures, but negative impacts from field investigations have been less clear cut.

Indeed this issue raises a number of new concerns, including the need to better understand the fate of neonic residues already in the environment.

This research identifies a clear relationship between neonic exposure in the field and bee mortality.

Clothianidin (Klo - thee - AN - ih - din) was the most commonly detected neonic in these rivers.

Neonics disrupt the central nervous systems of insects and are most often applied to seeds so the chemical becomes incorporated into the plants» leaves, pollen, nectar, fruit and flowers.

The TFSP's systematic reviews of more than 1,000 published scientific studies found neonics pose a threat to pollinators, biodiversity and food security worldwide.

In June, an international task force of 29 independent scientists released a four - year assessment of 800 peer - reviewed studies into neonics and systemic pesticides.

Not only pesticides, just specifically neonics.»

Neonicotinoid pesticides, also known as neonics, are the most widely used insecticides in the world.

Since 2010, a growing body of international scientific evidence has shown neonics are dangerous to biodiversity.

Recently, the European Commission voted to ban all outdoor agricultural uses of neonics by the end of 2018.

While the EU is moving forward quickly with comprehensive action on neonics, Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has yet to introduce any parallel regulatory restrictions.

Plants that have been treated with neonics (which is done through the application of a seed coating) should be clearly marked and easily avoided if you are keeping an eye out when making your plant selections.

The researchers screened the water for six neonic pesticides.

Click here to support the David Suzuki Foundation's call to ban neonics in Canada.

Some scientists say pesticides called neonics are being overused.

In late 2014, EPA scientists released a study showing that neonic seed treatments produce no significant increase in crop yield.

What's more, said Jeremy Kerr, professor in the department of biology at the University of Ottawa and author of a related Perspective in this issue, «some studies that have been carefully designed and executed have nevertheless found that neonics did not cause harm to [bees].»

Further, as a commercial pollinator, Cox comes into contact with all the chemicals, including neonics, used in the areas he visits, and those chemicals can wind up in his bees.

Their Worldwide Integrated Assessment highlighted harmful effects of neonics on bees and serious risks to many other beneficial species, including butterflies, earthworms and birds.

These were then the first usage of neonics in the UK.»

And when placed in a large, inverted funnel used to study birds» migratory orientations, the neonic - fed birds tried to fly in directions other than north.

And today, the neonic lies right at the heart of that Rachel Carson paradox.

The neonic entered broad use in the U.S. in the late 1990s and quickly became ubiquitous, used on millions of acres of corn, cotton, soybeans, canola and more, accounting for about $ 2.5 billion in sales.

Companies, including Bayer and Syngenta, create varying formulas of neonics, which can be applied to seeds or growing crops.

The evidence, gathered from 91 bee colonies owned by three commercial beekeepers, showed just trace amounts of neonics but did find that fungicides are more prevalent than thought and closely correlate with bee deaths.