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Bees 'dumb down' after ingesting tiny doses pesticide chlorpyrifos
2016-03-02 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Honeybees suffer severe learning and memory deficits after ingesting very small doses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, potentially threatening their success and survival, new research from New Zealand's University of Otago suggests. In their study, researchers from the Departments of Zoology and Chemistry collected bees from 51 hives across 17 locations in the province of Otago in Southern New Zealand and measured their chlorpyrifos levels. They detected low levels of pesticide in bees at three...
ChemChina offers $43B for Swiss pesticide giant Syngenta
2016-02-04 05:30:20| Chemicals - Topix.net
In this Feb. 5, 2014 file picture the logo of Syngenta AG, a producer of agricultural chemicals, is photographed in Basel, Switzerland. A Chinese state-owned chemical maker offered to buy Swiss pesticide giant Syngenta for $43 billion in what would be the biggest-ever foreign acquisition by a Chinese company.
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Illinois Department of Agriculture Pesticide Clean Sweep Program 2015
2015-12-08 23:23:00| Agriculture - Topix.net
In 2015, the Illinois Department of Agriculture along with the Illinois Department of Public Health conducted an agricultural/structural pesticide clean sweep program collection for the residents of Calhoun, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Morgan, Pike, and Scott counties. Local sponsors included county Farm Bureau offices, University of Illinois Extension offices and Soil and Water Conservation District offices.
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Global warming may affect pesticide effectiveness
2015-12-01 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The effectiveness of an important mosquito-fighting insecticide may be impaired by global warming, according to a recent study in the Journal of Medical Entomology. Two researchers from Montana State University, graduate student Shavonn Whiten and Dr. Robert Peterson, have shown that permethrin becomes less effective at killing the yellowfever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) as temperatures increase. These mosquitoes, which are found in the tropics and the subtropics, can transmit viruses that lead to...
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The buzz in the pesticide industry
2015-11-16 17:42:01| Chemicals - Topix.net
It's no secret: Pesticide-makers, hurt by the drop in farmers' chemical purchases as commodity prices fall, are weighing merger deals that would combine plants, cut costs, and speed future products. "Everybody is talking to everybody" among his fellow CEOs, Pierre R. Brondeau , chief executive of FMC Corp. , the Philadelphia-based pesticide, food-preservatives, and lithium-products maker whose 49-story headquarters tower is now rising on the Schuylkill's west bank, told investors Oct. 29 in his fall conference call.
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