The makers of pesticides feared to have a damaging effect on bees have insisted there was no need for them to be banned.
The makers of pesticides feared to have a damaging effect on bees have insisted there was no need for them to be banned.
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Concerns have been raised that exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides can have an immediate or long-term effect on bee colony survival and development and that sub-lethal doses can have impacts such as damaging foraging behaviour.
But Bayer CropScience's Dr Julian Little told the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that, when all the evidence surrounding neo-nicotinoids was considered, there was no need to ban them.
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