Queen bees are less likely to lay eggs or start a colony after insecticide exposure
New research has found that once (some) queen bumblebees are exposed to the common insecticide thiamethoxam (from the neonicotinoid family), they may never lay eggs or start colonies again. No eggs means no worker bees. And no new colonies could mean their extinction. The findings were published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.1 RELATED ARTICLE: Bumblebees are some of our most important crop pollinators. Nigel Raine, the Rebanks Family Chair in pollinator conservation and a professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario who conducted the study with Dr. Gemma Baron and other researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, said:...
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