Controversial pesticides linked to 'total ecological collapse' of insects and birds

Widespread use of insecticides is affecting bee populations but also causing decline in numbers of birds, butterflies and moths, warns Dutch toxicologist. A new book is blaming the significant decline of bird and bee numbers across Europe on the use of certain pesticides in agriculture. In The Systemic Insecticides: A Disaster in the Making, toxicologist Dr Henk Tennekes suggests that dangerous insecticides known as neonicotinoids are seriously affecting bird and insect life, and their continued use could result in an ‘environmental catastrophe’.

Source: The Ecologist, 16 November 2010
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