A new study has found that exposure of neonicotinoid pesticides affects the pollination services provided by bumblebees, resulting in the decrease in crop quality of apple trees.
The new study by the University of Guelph, environmental sciences professor, Nigel Raine, and other researchers, was published last week in Nature. The study shows for the first time that exposure to field levels of a pesticide can reduce the pollination services bumblebees deliver to apples. Bumblebee colonies exposed to a neonicotinoid pesticide, the most…
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