Lawsuit challenges USDA’s failure to protect endangered species from insecticide. Citizen science finds multiple habitats need protecting to save U.K. bumble bees. Plus: The bee genome project.
Lawsuit challenges USDA’s failure to protect endangered species from insecticide. Citizen science finds multiple habitats need protecting to save U.K. bumble bees. Plus: The bee genome project.
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The Xerces Society and Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s secretive Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for failing to properly consider harms to endangered species caused by insecticide spraying across millions of acres of western grasslands. The main insecticide sprayed is diflubenzuron, which kills insects in their immature stages. It is typically sprayed from airplanes over areas of at least 10,000 acres. Studies have shown the insecticide reduces populations of bees, butterflies, beetles, and a wide variety of other insects. Aquatic invertebrates consumed by endangered fish and trout are also vulnerable.
Lawsuit challenges USDA’s failure to protect endangered species from insecticide. Citizen science finds multiple habitats need protecting to save U.K. bumble bees. Plus: The bee genome project.
Lawsuit challenges USDA’s failure to protect…
Lawsuit challenges USDA’s failure to protect endangered species from insecticide. Citizen science finds multiple habitats need protecting to save U.K. bumble bees. Plus: The bee genome project.
The Xerces Society and Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s secretive Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for failing to properly consider harms to endangered species caused by insecticide spraying across millions of acres of western grasslands. The main insecticide sprayed is diflubenzuron, which kills insects in their immature stages. It is typically sprayed from airplanes over areas of at least 10,000 acres. Studies have shown the insecticide reduces populations of bees, butterflies, beetles, and a wide variety of other insects. Aquatic invertebrates consumed by endangered fish and trout are also vulnerable.