CAROLINA NATURALLY: Study strengthens link between insecticides and collapse of honey bee colonies

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Study strengthens link between insecticides and collapse of honey bee colonies

Nurse bees tending to brood in cells both open and capped with beeswax. Recent work at Washington University in St. Louis suggests that the division of labor in honeybee colonies is controlled by small segments of noncoding RNA called micro-RNAs, or miRNAs.

Study strengthens link between insecticides and collapse of honey bee colonies

Two widely used neonicotinoids—a class of insecticide—appear to significantly harm

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