So basically, neonics are barely a problem.
Originally shared by Charles Younger
“There is a tendency in the science media to report on studies, no matter how weak, that suggest problems rather than ones that reaffirm current practices as safe. This has been true in the debate over neonicotinoids: while the media continues to produce stories suggesting a pesticide-fueled bee-apocalypse is unfolding, the world’s top entomologists and regulators are going in a different direction–they believe that while bee health issues are real, the challenge from pesticides in general and neonicotinoids in particular–the boogymen of anti-pesticide activists–represent only the tiniest fraction of the cause. Field study after field study has indicated that there is little to no observable adverse effect on honey bees at the hive level from field-realistic exposures to properly-applied pesticides.”