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Neonicotinoids again
Neonicotinoids again
February 8, 2013 —
I'm sure the various campaigns to ban neonicotinoids waged by people like Buglife, the Friends of the Earth and the BBCT are going to carry the day in the UK. I'm confident not least because they a...
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Neonicotinoids in Rivers
Neonicotinoids in Rivers
December 13, 2017 —
The neonicotinoids fiasco has so many familiar elements it's turning into a classic of its kind. Widespread use of a largely untested pesticide has had consequences no-one in authority apparently a...
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Neonicotinoids And Bees (Again)
Neonicotinoids And Bees (Again)
June 30, 2017 —
Yesterday I saw two papers on neonicotinoids and bees. They are the first large scale look at how these systemic pesticides affect bees in the field. We've known for some time that neonicotinoids h...
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Neonicotinoids And Climate Change
Neonicotinoids And Climate Change
January 17, 2021 —
As a topic for a blog, neonicotinoids just keep on giving. I started writing about them over a decade ago and the debate about them - like the chemicals themselves - continues to be as toxic. They'...
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Unintended Consequences
Unintended Consequences
March 31, 2012 —
I've blogged before about neonicotinoids. These are a new generation of systemic pesticides which are being associated with increasing confidence to declining numbers of bees. They were originally ...
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Bees and Pesticides
Bees and Pesticides
April 18, 2013 —
The bees and pesticides argument rages on. I won't bore you with the minutiae of the current debate on neonicotinoids, but let's just say the quality of it leaves something to be desired. There's m...
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A Singular Enthusiasm
A Singular Enthusiasm
January 7, 2011 —
An interesting argument is going on about the use of Neonicotinoid ("Neonic") pesticides and their effect on bees in particular, which seemingly illustrates what can happen when activists, the med...
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"Official: Mobile Phones are Killing Bees"
"Official: Mobile Phones are Killing Bees"
May 13, 2011 —
This has been the headline across social media this week, which has been blithely repeated and repeated with increasing excitement as if it is fact. Some bloke in Switzerland has published a paper ...
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Causes To Get Behind
Causes To Get Behind
May 23, 2021 —
There are those who don't know much, those that know a lot about a little, and those that know a little about a lot. I'm firmly in the third category, sometimes annoyingly.
Faced with government sp...
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Three Bees
Three Bees
December 14, 2012 —
There's often general confusion between different types of bees, and I thought it might be helpful to clarify who's who in a brief introduction. In the U.K. we have honeybees, bumblebees and solita...
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January 17, 2021 — As a topic for a blog, neonicotinoids just keep on giving. I started writing about them over a decade ago and the debate about them - like the chemicals themselves - continues to be as toxic. They'...
May 23, 2021 — There are those who don't know much, those that know a lot about a little, and those that know a little about a lot. I'm firmly in the third category, sometimes annoyingly. Faced with government sp...
