Bee is the buzzword: yes, insecticides do killLanguage: (EN)New scientific research in France and the UK makes it clear that insecticides are playing a major role in the decline and dissappearance of honeybees, which has been plaguing the Netherlands and other western countries in the past decade. The "Bees love organic" campaign, which will be launched on April 22 by Nature & More in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, comes exactly at the right moment. In the meanwhile, Dutch scientist from Wageningen are still trying to downplay the effects of insecticides. Update: Harvard scientists have now also found that neonicotinoid insecticides cause bees to disappear. |
