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[–] RavingGrob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

As a Pest Control Technician in the US, it's absolutely wild to consider using Neonicotinoids for agricultural pest control.

A very large part of why Neonicotinoids (Neo-nics) are so dangerous for Bees, is that unlike other forms of pesticides, they are "biocompatible" with plants (they're based on nicotine after all).

Even just getting Neo-nics near plants can allow them to project the full pesticide directly into the nectar, after the root systems pull the Neo-nics in.

Another large reason that Neo-nics are super dangerous to Bees, is called the "transfer effect".

Essentially if a Bee gets any of the Neo-nic on them, they can spread it by just saying "Hello" to the other Bees in the hive.

So you have Neo-nic laden Nectar, getting brought directly back to the hive... It's game over.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Humanity sucks

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago

This is heartbreaking

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

They're half German :p

[–] RavingGrob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

It's how I type.