Studies examine bee populations on the decline By Michelle Stevens Bee populations in the United States appear to be dwindling, and the agricultural community is left with the question that is all ...

More and more homeowners are becoming alarmed over the “worms” that are devouring the needles of their pine trees, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “These aren’t ...

Protected underneath that covering is an insect with what we call piercing/sucking mouthparts. As they live under the hard shell, they are free to feed upon your plant. A few of these insects is not a ...

A group of potent pesticides called neonicotinoids do an amazing job eradicating many types of insect ... of indiscriminate systemic pest control chemicals that includes Imidacloprid, Clothianidin ...

They point out that the use of this systemic pesticide ... invertebrate exposure to insecticides. The researchers identify five main goals for their report: “Determine long-term and seasonal patterns ...

For imidacloprid, 199 species ... which are planted on hundreds of millions of acres each year. The insecticides are systemic, meaning they are absorbed by plants, making the entire plant deadly toxic ...

It still appears that the systemic insecticide Imidacloprid applied as a soil drench specifically around the affected plants just one time, about the middle of May, is your best means of lessening ...

As systemic insecticides, they’re absorbed by plants ... northern long-eared bats and orcas. Imidacloprid is also one of the two active ingredients in Seresto flea collars, implicated in the deaths of ...

Birds, such as blue and great tits, use fur to line their nests, exposing their offspring to pesticides used in veterinary treatments.