modern research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows that a widely-used lesson of nicotine-based insecticides is causing queen bees to lay substantially fewer eggs than normal. This specific lesson of insecticides—the most popular in the worldhas also been linked to colony collapse disorder
,a mysterious phenomenon in which the majority of worker bees suddenly abandon the hive, leaving immature bees and the queen behind.
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Source: gawker.com