SAN DIEGO – A group of UC San Diego researchers announced Wednesday that a pesticide billed as “bee safe” could actually threaten certain honey bee demographics, especially when used in combination ...

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One of those alternatives is a pesticide called Sivanto, made by Bayer CropScience. Sivanto is Bayer’s brand name for a pesticide called flupyradifurone, and the company has stressed that the ...

It has been just over a month now since varroa mite was detected in sentinel hives at the Port of Newcastle, with millions of bees in emergency zones since euthanased. Hive movement is now underway in ...

Because bees selectively and efficiently visit the flowers on a crop, they are ideal candidates to deliver biological agents or chemicals to manage several important plant diseases whose infective ...

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