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EPA Debuts Bee-Protective Pesticide Warning Labels

To protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some neonicotinoid pesticide products where bees are present. The new labels will have a bee hazard icon and precautions about the spray drift precautions, but environmentalists say they will push the agency to remove these pesticides from the market altogether.

Bee-harming Pesticides Banned in Europe

Bees are vital -- because of their pollinating in the fields -- to any nation's food production and to European agriculture worth €22 billion annually. That's why Europe has voted to enforce the world's first continent-wide ban on common insecticides linked to serious harm in bees.

Venom From Extremely Poisonous Caterpillar May Hold Healing Tonic That Saves Lives

The venom of one Australian caterpillar shows promise for use in medicines and pest control, researchers say. The Doratifera vulnerans is common to large parts of Queensland's south-east and is routinely found in Toohey Forest Park on Brisbane's southside. Dr Andrew Walker at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience has been researching the striking looking caterpillar […]