Sentences with phrase «neonics on bees»
This new assessment of 800 peer - reviewed studies confirms concerns about the harmful effects of neonics on bees and other pollinators and also highlights serious risks to many other beneficial species, including butterflies, earthworms and birds.
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Their Worldwide Integrated Assessment highlighted harmful effects of neonics on bees and serious risks to many other beneficial species, including butterflies, earthworms and birds.
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.»
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«Focusing just on neonics, and thinking that banning neonics is going to fix things, I think really underestimates the magnitude of the problems that bees are dealing with.»
The work re-ignites arguments to ban neonics, and certainly comparable studies are now need on other pollinator species given that honey bees are by no means the contributor to crop pollination.»
Last September, the International Union for Conservation of Nature updated a 2015 report on neonicotinoids, which said a review of more than 1,110 peer - reviewed research studies showed there was no doubt that flying through chemical - laden clouds of dust from neonic - treated farm fields is killing bees.
The EU voted for a near - complete ban on three neonics — pesticides that pose a deadly risk to bees and other pollinators.