Sentences with phrase «pesticides imidacloprid»

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Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, asked for a ban on three common pesticides — atrazine, metalaxyl, and imidacloprid — compounds she said are the most commonly found in Long Island's groundwater.

To probe possible effects of these chemicals, scientists looked at hives whose bees had been exposed to two pesticides: imidacloprid (Ih - MEED - uh - KLOH - prid) and clothianidin (Klo - thee - AN - ih - din).

Imidacloprid is another common systemic pesticide and is found primarily in leafy greens and other vegetables.

To further its understanding of the issue, the EPA required enhanced reporting for the year 2008 from all manufacturers of EPA registered topical pesticide products, which encompassed all classes of pesticide active ingredients, including cyphenothrin, phenothrin, permethrin, imidacloprid, dinotefuran, fipronil, amitraz, etofenprox, S - methoprene, pyriproxyfen, and metaflumizone.

Here's a snippet from Toxicology of newer pesticides for use in dogs and cats about imidacloprid:

Here's a summary of the reproductive toxicity of imidacloprid (the active ingredient in Advantage): Pesticides News No. 62, December 2003, pages 22 - 23 Laboratory studies on imidacloprid have shown it can have an impact on reproduction.

Imidacloprid — Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment USDA «These studies... were conducted to fulfill EPA requirements for testing as part of the pesticide registration process.

In 2003 U.S. farms began using systemic pesticides called neonicotinoids, including clothianidin and imidacloprid.

For her doctorate she studied the sublethal effects of several pesticides (with an emphasis on the neonicotinoid imidacloprid) on honey bees at the USDA lab in Beltsville under the mentorship of Dr. Jeff Pettis.

A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientific report determined that three widely used pesticides — nicotine - based clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam — pose «high acute risks» for bees.

The coalition, working in cooperation with German beekeepers, alleges that the start of clothianidin and imidacloprid (Bayer's best - selling pesticide) sales coincided with large scale bee deaths in Europe and North America.

Nicotinyl pesticides, containing clothianidin, thiametoxam and imidacloprid, used to coat plant seeds, are released into the lymph as a permanent insecticide inside the plant.

When the six weeks were up, the researchers found that colonies exposed to low and high doses of imidacloprid were 8 % and 12 % smaller, respectively, than colonies that hadn't been treated with pesticide whatsoever.

In the first study, researchers exposed 75 bee colonies to a neonicotinoid called imidacloprid (a pesticide whose use is authorized for over 140 crops in 120 countries worldwide) over the course of 14 days.

Bayer exports imidacloprid to more than 120 countries and the substance is Bayer's best - selling pesticide.

Meanwhile Dr Julian Little, a spokesman for Bayer CropScience, makers of imidacloprid, argued that folks should be focusing on diseases and parasites, not pesticides — except, of course, that these findings suggest that there's an interaction between these related threats.

Now the Independent reports that a new research paper, published in the German science journal Naturwissenschaften, has shown that bees exposed to minute doses of imidacloprid — also a neonicotinoid pesticide — are left considerably more vulnerable to infections caused by a deadly parasite, nosema:

The U.K, team exposed buff - tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) to small doses, similar to what is expected in the wild, of a commonly used neonicotinoid pesticide called imidacloprid, and placed the bees in an enclosed natural setting where they could forage free.