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Honeybee Colonies Might Be Better At Surviving Controversial Pesticide Than Previously Thought

There has been an ongoing debateover whether a controversial type of pesticide has harmful effects on bees and other pollinators. Lab-based investigations seemed to conclude that honeybees are heavily impacted by the pesticides, whereas field studies claimed that bee colonies were not. A new study seems to have filled the gap between these discrepancies, and…