Pesticides – News and Features

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Queen Bees Choose To Hibernate in Pesticide-Contaminated Soil
For reasons that researchers don't yet understand, queen bees are more likely to hibernate in pesticide-contaminated soil than in clean soil.

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Tomato Plants Are Shorter When Watered With Large Droplets
The size of water droplets affects tomato plant growth and resistance to pests and pathogens.

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Native North American Bees Mostly Seem Untroubled By Invasive Honey Bees
Researchers at Penn State discovered that the presence of managed honey bee populations is linked to declines in some native bee genera. The study highlights how competition for resources and stressors like urbanization affect wild bee populations.

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Parasite Treatments From Swimming Dogs Pollute Pond Waters
A new study has found that dogs treated with spot-on flea and tick treatments can release harmful pesticides into the ponds where they swim. Most dog owners are unaware of this risk, the study suggests.

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Quality Nutrition Help Bees Battle Pesticides and Viral Infections
Researchers found that high-quality nutrition improves honey bee survival against the combined threats of pesticides and viral infections. Their study indicates that while pesticides remain harmful, good nutrition can bolster bee resilience.

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Spraying Human Urine on Crops Could Reduce Reliance on Pesticides
Bacterial communities in soil are as resilient to human urine as synthetic fertilisers – making recycling the bodily fluid as a fertiliser for agricultural crops a viable proposition, according to a new study.

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Good Nutrition Boosts Honey Bee Resilience Against Pesticides and Viruses
Understanding how bees respond to all the agricultural chemicals they encounter is a complicated task. However, scientists found that good nutrition enhances honey bee resilience against other threats.

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Hemp Shows Promise as Mosquito Insecticide
As part of the race to combat global insecticide resistance, new research shows that CBD is extremely effective at killing mosquito larvae.

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Airborne Microbes From Northeastern China Discovered Above Japan
A study by ISGlobal and collaborators found that air samples taken at 1,000-3,000 meters above Japan contained diverse, viable bacteria and fungi, some pathogenic. These microbes, likely transported from fertilizer-rich areas in China.

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Airborne Microbes Potentially Pathogenic to Humans
Air samples taken at altitudes up to 3,000 meters over Japan unveil the presence of a wide array of microbes, some of which are potentially pathogenic to humans, transported thousands of kilometers by aerosols originating in northeast China.
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