Should the Agricultural Use of Neonicotinoids Be Banned?
December 19, 2014
From: American Bee Journal
by Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC-Davis Dept. of Entomology and Nematology
A team of entomology graduate students from the University of California, Davis, successfully argued at the Entomological Society of America’s recent student debates that a ban on the insecticides in agriculture “will not improve pollinator health or restore populations, based on current science. Neonicotinoids are important for control of many significant agricultural and veterinary pests. Part of the solution is to develop better regulations that will protect the health of pollinators and retain the use of an important IPM tool.”
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