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neonicotinoids
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Fish farm companies ‘bidding to use bee-harming pesticide’
Scotland's salmon farming industry is planning to start using a toxic pesticide that has been banned in terrestrial agriculture because of dangers to bees, campaigners are warning.
Alarm over Acetamiprid pesticide used on Scotland’s woods
Scotland’s forests are treated and sprayed every year with hundreds of kilograms of a toxic pesticide blamed for killing bees and butterflies, The Ferret can reveal.
Bees slowly poisoned by pesticides, say scientists
An expert review concludes that neonicotinoids are killing bees, and could threaten food production.
