The Impact of Pesticides on Bee Health
Conference - London, United Kingdom
The Biochemical Society, the Society for Experimental Biology and the British Ecological Society are delighted to announce their third joint scientific conference.
An important challenge facing the future of humanity is food security. This resource is heavily supported by the actions of insect pollinators and attacked by insect crop pests. Agrochemical intensification has reduced the amount of natural forage and breeding/nesting sites for insects and simultaneously providing large bonanzas in the form crops. Therefore, it is currently necessary to fight the battle against pest species using insecticides. This approach is a double-edged sword with both insect pests and pollinators being vulnerable. This conference will discuss whether the key insecticides being used in this battle have an overall negative impact on bees, and so food security.
Organization: Rowena Mitchell
(Courtesy of a bee covered with pollen on flower, via healthimpactnews.com)
The Impact of Pesticides on Bee Health
Wed, Jan 22, 2014 - Fri, Jan 24, 2014
Charles Darwin House
12 Roger Street, WC1N 2JU, London, United Kingdom
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