In bee decline, fungicides emerge as improbable villain
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In bee decline, fungicides emerge as improbable villain
Credit: Lindsay France/University PhotographyScott McArt checks on honeycombs at Cornell's Dyce Lab in Ithaca.
When a Cornell-led team of scientists analyzed two dozen environmental factors to understand bumblebee population declines and range contractions, they expected to find stressors like changes in land use, geography or insecticides.
Instead, they found a shocker: fungicides, commonly thought to have no impact.
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