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'Inert' ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than scientists thought (theconversation.com)
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[–] dumdum666@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

It is not the Honeybee population that has a problem- it’s the „wild“ bees like Bumblebees that die out. It weirds me out that insecticides are seemingly only tested on the species (honeybees) that grew in numbers over the last decades…