In the past year or so you may have noticed tags intended to inform the consumer of the use or nonuse of neonicotinids on some Lowes and Home Depot plants. That is because both retailers have ...

Overall, the diminishing honeybee population is a complex issue – there are a variety of different subspecies around the world, each with different food sources, predators, and environmental issues.

In this illustration, the red-shaded area represents the relative concentration of a neonicotinoid pesticide and the blue-shaded area represents the relative concentration of the soybean aphid ...

California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation has proposed limiting the use of neonicotinoid insecticides on farms to protect pollinators. “At certain levels of exposure, neonicotinoids present ...

LONDON - A group of chemical insecticides known as neonicotinoids that have been banned in Europe due to fears about potential harm to bees have been found in new research to have very differential ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Western bumblebees are becoming less common in Colorado, dropping nearly 60% since 1998 due to impacts from climate change and the use of a certain pesticide ...

A memo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Thursday that the Trump administration rolled back an Obama-era ban on neonicotinoids, a group of synthetic chemical pesticides that are ...

Neonicotinoids are currently the most widely used pesticides in the world and frequently make headlines because of their harmful effects on honeybees and other insect pollinators. Now, a study ...

Neonicotinoids began dominating the agricultural market in the early 2000s, after being referred to as the "perfect" insecticide. Indeed, the compound made of synthetic nicotine acts as a neurotoxin ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Humans are big fans of bees. We rely on them to pollinate crops like almonds, watermelons and apples. But bees probably aren’t big fans of humans — at least, not of our agricultural practices. In ...