'Inert' ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than scientists thought
theconversation.com
Inert ingredients are added for purposes other than killing pests and are not required under federal law to be tested for safety or identified on pesticide labels.
  • dumdum666@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It is not the Honeybee population that has a problem- it’s the „wild“ bees like Bumblebees that die out. It weirds me out that insecticides are seemingly only tested on the species (honeybees) that grew in numbers over the last decades…