(Beyond Pesticides, July 28, 2024) Most people don’t like bugs, but the fact is that insects form the foundation of human flourishing, both for their ecosystems services, like pollination of food ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 24, 2025) Based on data collected from government sources and independent monitoring, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Connecticut finds that 46 ...

Some people believe that when a monarch lands on you, it’s a sign of positive change to come. Yet over the past several decades, monarch populations have experienced much negative change, undergoing ...

The yellow-banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola) nectars joe pye weed. Photo courtesy/copyright K.P. McFarland/Vermont Center for Ecostudies Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a bill which would ban the use of ...

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ALBANY, New York, January 30, 2024 (ENS) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law first-in-the-nation legislation to protect birds and bees from toxic neonicotinoid pesticides used on ...

A research team led by a professor in Michigan State University's Department of Entomology has received a $6 million grant to find solutions to control potato pests without the use of an insecticide.

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MONTPELIER — A bill banning the use of neonicotinoid pesticides has passed the Vermont House and now been voted favorably out of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The Senate committee on April 18 ...

Next time you’re on a walk through the neighborhood, look up. You probably won’t see flimsy bags with looped handles fluttering against the blue of the midsummer sky the way you used to. Gov. Phil ...