Pesticides May Be Like Nicotine To Bumblebees, New Study Says
humblebee may acquire a orientation for pesticides in much the same mode smoking compartment develop an addiction to nicotine . That ’s the ratiocination of a study recently publish inProceedings of the Royal Society B. Researchers from Imperial College and Queen Mary University , both in London , tracked the forage behavior of 10 bumblebee colonies for 10 days . The bees had several sucrose feeders to forage from . Each contain a root with either 0 , 2 , or 11 parting per billion ( ppb ) of thiamethoxam , aneonicotinoid class of insect powder ....