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'Stop using the bloody things': pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-07-16

In recent years the evidence has piled up that neonicotinoids—a hugely popular group of pesticide—may be at least partly responsible for ongoing bee and pollinator collapse. But new research in the journal Nature find that these pesticides could also be taking a heavy toll on other species, in this case common birds.

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