01-04-2013The European Commission said, on 19 March, that it would refer its proposal for a ban on the use of…
26-03-2013As part of a study on impacts from the world’s most widely used class of insecticides, nicotine-like chemicals called neonicotinoids,…
20-03-2013In the past decade, many studies have implicated a class of pesticides known as “neonicotinoids” in the declines of pollinator…
06-03-2013The butterfly population in the Netherlands declined further in 2012 and has currently reached the lowest level during the past…
06-03-2013Dinetofuran (DNT), imidacloprid (IMD) and thiamethoxam (THM) are among the neonicotinoid insecticides widely used for managing insect pests of agricultural…
04-03-2013Eight national non-profit organizations concerned with the environment, food safety, children’s health, bee and bird conservation, and pesticide management, sent…
04-03-2013Wild bees, butterflies, flies, beetles and other wild insects play a key role in pollination and hence in food production,…
03-03-2013New Jersey’s two venomous snakes, the timber rattlesnake and northern copperhead, have been persecuted by four centuries of human habitation.…
03-03-2013The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is synonymous with Kiwi summers, but experts are concerned the iconic orange insect has failed…
01-03-2013A study recently published in the journal ‘Biological Conservation’ has highlighted the perilous state many reptiles are in. The study…
