You’ve heard about the sad plight of bees, and how important they are to our food chain because they pollinate a lot of the plants we live on, and how scientists aren’t sure whether it’s pesticides or cell phone towers or mites or a combination or something else altogether behind the dreaded colony collapse disorder.
Now, according to this Guardian post, they do know more about one suspect, certain pesticides, which they’re now calling out by name: “neonicotinoids.” They’re also calling for an outright ban, in order to save the bees, and us.
