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Study: Pesticides scramble bees’ brain circuits

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Pesticides used by farmers to protect crops or bee hives can scramble the brain circuits of honeybees, affecting memory and navigation skills needed to find food, scientists said Wednesday. This in turn threatened entire colonies of bees whose pollinating functions are vital for human food production, they wrote in the…

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European Union considers ban on insecticides to save bees

A man in Berne last month. wears a T-shirt reading in French 'Protect our bees' (AFP)

The European Commission said Tuesday it will try again to get member states to back a two-year ban on insecticides harmful to bees whose numbers have been in sharp and worrying decline. EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg told EU agriculture ministers meeting in Brussels that he wanted to revisit the…

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EU hints at banning insecticides over threat to bees

A beekeeper looks at a hive in Colomiers, southwestern France, on June 1, 2012. (AFP)

The European Commission hinted on Wednesday that it could ban several insecticides, some made by German chemicals giant Bayer, after scientists found disturbing evidence of harm to bees. The EU’s food safety agency had reported “disturbing conclusions on three types of insecticides,” a spokesman for EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg…

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