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Juanse Barros J.
Are Pesticides Poisoning Honey Bees?
EINNEWS, November 12---The collapse of honeybee populations has had many in
agriculture and farm research on edge for years because the tiny bee's
pollination activity is so important to the cultivation of so many of the
world's food crops.
Now British researchers believe they are onto one of the causes for
disappearance of the honeybee: pesticides.
With a $2.3 million grant, scientists from three U.K. universities have
launched a study into whether continuous exposure to a range of pesticides
is interfering with the brains and nervous systems of bees and other
pollinators.
The idea is that the toxicity of pesticides blocks electrical signals into
the bee's nervous system, making it harder for bees to communicate with one
another, and to navigate to food sources and then home again.
The new study is part of a larger program that involves scientists from many
fields. It's funded by both the U.K. and Scottish governments and
environmental groups.
Earlier this year a team of U.S. researchers announced they had identified a
virus that believed was responsible for the decline of honey bee
populations. But neither this possible solution or others have yet to be
fully confirmed.
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