Independent: A class of pesticides linked to the decline of honeybees is also affecting a wide variety of other beneficial organisms such as earthworms and butterflies, according to a major study that directly contradicts the Governments relaxed stance on the use of neonicotinoids. A group of 29 scientists from four continents found unequivocal evidence from hundreds of published studies to claim that neonics the most widely used pesticides in the world are having a dramatic impact on the ecosystems that...