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Summary Of Tasteless Pesticides

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Losing Our Bees to Pesticides The article, “Tasteless pesticides affect bees in the field” by Raine and Gill, describes two studies that explore the environmental risks of nicotinoids (a type of pesticide). The first study by Kessler et al. concludes that bees are unable to taste nicotinoids when mixed with sugar and water. The second study by Rundlof et al. shows that certain bees in fields with pesticide had lower reproduction and growth rate. Kessler et al. tested in a controlled laboratory where they looked at three pesticides (clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam). Feeders contained neonicotinoid-treated sugar water or untreated solution. Their results showed that the worker bees did not avoid the neonicotinoid-treated sugar water,

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