A new study has revealed a surprising wrinkle in our understanding of how pesticides affect bumble bees across the seasons.

Bee-killing pesticides have been found in 85% of tested rivers in England, an analysis of Government figures has found. Green groups looked at Environment Agency data on neonicotinoid pesticides ...

A new investigation from The Guardian shows that heavy pesticide use in almond groves is causing massive die-offs among bee colonies.The World's Almond Milk Craze Is Killing Bees at a Staggering ...

Scientists have discovered that the venom of the world’s deadliest spider will kill of pests but won ... of Newcastle fed large doses of the pesticide to bees in a lab - far beyond what they ...

Lab research points to pesticides with neonicotinoids and fipronil — products banned in Europe — as the main cause of death for most bees in Brazil. The use of these bee-killing pesticides ...

Prior evidence of the untoward impacts of neonicotinoids on bees led the European Union to place a moratorium on their use, but until now there have been few field studies examining these pesticides ...

The pesticide, whose name literally means ... also make honeybees less tolerant to a virus called Chronic Bee Paralysis, which can kill them. But agro-chemical companies like Syngenta have ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has approved emergency use of a bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticide on up to 75,000 acres of Florida citrus crops, including ...

Bees prefer to eat food contaminated with pesticides and could become addicted to them in the same way smokers are addicted to nicotine, scientists have discovered. A study by researchers at ...

Joan Edwards, director of policy and public affairs at The Wildlife Trusts, said: “There is simply no place in modern sustainable agriculture for highly toxic pesticides that kill bees and ...

We found that in 71% of cases studied, pesticides kill or harm soil invertebrates like earthworms, ants, beetles and ground-nesting bees. We found negative effects across all studied pesticide classes ...