Enlarge / A foraging bee. (credit: Nunzio_Zotti / Flickr) We need bees to pollinate the plants that feed us. And bees need us to stop inadvertently poisoning them with the insecticides we use to keep those plants healthy. Unfortunately, just as we start to make progress on reducing the worldwide use of neonicotinoids (a class […]
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Dutch farmers to cull millions of hens after toxic insecticide fipronil found in eggs
Millions of hens may need to be culled in the Netherlands after traces of a potentially harmful insecticide were found in eggs, a Dutch farming group said, ratcheting up the strain on a sector still reeling from a bird flu outbreak. CBC | Health News
How to get rid of spiders in the house WITHOUT using insecticide
Whether you’re an arachnophobe or not, having an eight-legged creepy crawly wandering around the inside of your home, and having your ceilings covered in webs, isn’t always the most pleasant of experiences. While spiders are most likely to enter your home in the autumn in search of a warm place, they can still find their […]