11-12-2009Indirect effects of pesticides, operating through the food chain, have been proposed as a possible causal factor in the decline…
09-12-2009Intensification of agriculture is believed to have caused declines in farmland bird populations. One of the key elements of recent…
08-12-2009A study was conducted over 3 years on an experimental home lawn to detect, measure and contrast the effects of…
04-12-2009We estimate that, in the past 20 years, ten million breeding individuals of ten species of farmland birds have disappeared…
03-12-2009Britain's farmland birds have suffered alarming declines over the last twenty-five years. It would appear that their decrease in numbers…
02-12-2009Sixty percent of Europe's bird species live on farmland. Insecticides are killing invertebrates (insects, beetles, spiders) - an important source…
30-11-2009A NATIONWIDE survey of dragonflies is being launched amid concerns that a third of British species are under threat. The…
25-11-2009There are concerns regarding the long-term environmental fate and environmental persistence of the widely used insecticide imidacloprid. The 2005 sales…
25-11-2009Western culture views insects and arachnids as pests and vermin that need to be controlled. They usually are not considered…
25-11-2009With almost one million described species, insects eclipse all other forms of animal life on Earth, not only in sheer…
