NOBULL: Wildlife Extra News – Birds, bees, and aquatic life threatened by gross underestimate of toxicity of world’s most widely used pesticide

Birds, bees, and aquatic life threatened by gross underestimate of toxicity of world’s most widely used pesticide

A single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a songbird. Photo courtesy of USFWS

American Bird Conservancy calls for ban on neonicotinoids
March 2013. As part of a study on impacts from the world’s most widely used class of insecticides, nicotine-like chemicals called neonicotinoids, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has called for a ban on their use as seed treatments and for the suspension of all applications pending an independent review of the products’ effects on birds, terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates, and other wildlife. MORE