Bats’ Voracious Appetite for Agricultural Pests and Mosquitoes Are a Part of...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 29, 2020) The terrible reputation with which bats are commonly saddled — especially now, because of their association with the origins of the family of coronaviruses — is...
View ArticleNew Test Will Help Researchers Understand Pesticide Threats to Wild Bat...
(Beyond Pesticides, December 10, 2020) A new test developed by a team of Mexican and Canadian scientists will help field researchers detect early warning signs of pesticide exposure in wild bat...
View ArticleVermont Committee Recommends Mosquito Spray Program Needs Special Permit to...
(Beyond Pesticides, March 19, 2021) As reported by VTDigger, Vermont’s Endangered Species Committee recently took action to uphold the state’s endangered species law. The committee announced that a...
View ArticleConventional Agriculture Decreases Diversity of Gut Bacteria in Foraging Bats
(Beyond Pesticides, September 29, 2021) Bats foraging in chemical-intensive banana plantations have much less gut diversity than bats foraging in organic banana fields and natural forestland, finds...
View ArticleBeyond Pesticides Makes Science-based Case that It Is Imperative to Phase Out...
The organic solutions to problems highlighted in the latest issue of Pesticides and You—based on the importance of healthy ecosystems and public health protection—are within reach, and the data creates...
View ArticleBat Losses Costing American Farmers Half a Billion Dollars Annually
(Beyond Pesticides, May 18, 2022) Bat population declines are costing American farmers as much as $495 million each year, finds research published this month in the Journal of the Association of...
View ArticleNational Pollinator Week 2023—Preserve and “BEE-Protective” of Pollinators!
(Beyond Pesticides, June 20, 2023) Welcome to National Pollinator Week, during which time we recognize—and take action to protect—this important ecosystem link. Pollinators—bees, butterflies, birds,...
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