06-11-2014, 09:49 AM
Bio Pesticides may be the way forward, controlling insect pests on crops, while doing no harm to bees.
Newcastle University researchers found a combination of venom from the Australian Funnel Web Spider, mixed with a protein from a Snowdrop plant, creates a pesticide which is not dangerous to bees.
Read the article here:
http://www.care2.com/causes/saving-bees-...venom.html
(By the way I am dismayed -although not shocked -by the UK government's ideas about Nicotinoid pesticides being nothing to worry about.)
Newcastle University researchers found a combination of venom from the Australian Funnel Web Spider, mixed with a protein from a Snowdrop plant, creates a pesticide which is not dangerous to bees.
Read the article here:
http://www.care2.com/causes/saving-bees-...venom.html
(By the way I am dismayed -although not shocked -by the UK government's ideas about Nicotinoid pesticides being nothing to worry about.)
