Archive for October, 2008

Honeybees are killed by pesticides.

by administrator on October 17th, 2008 in Air Quality Issues

Many of us have heard of the problem of a dwindling honeybee population, but less has been written about the cause. Well, in Germany, it's been discovered that an ingredient in some insecticides called clothianidin is extremely fatal to honeybees. A total of two-thirds of all bees in the state of Baden Württemberg have been killed and [...]