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Pollinators: neonicotinoid pesticides stop bees and flies from getting a good night’s sleep – The Conversation UK
Chemicals banned in the EU were recently granted an exemption for limited use in the UK.
Neonicotinoids, the most commonly used pesticides in the world, were banned in the EU in 2018. More than 99,000 people petitioned the UK government to support the ban amid a wealth of scientific evidence linking this group of chemicals to poor health in bees, from the reduced production of bumblebee queens to slashed sperm counts among male honeybees.
The UK government had pledged to keep the EUs restrictions post-Brexit, but recently granted a special exemption to allow farmers to use the neonicotinoid…
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