WASHINGTON: Normally, we use pesticides to keep insects away but a new study revealed that bees doesn’t avoid pesticides, they are actually addicted to it or they can get addicted to it.
According to the researchers, bees are being addicted to sugary solution and pesticides have such solution. For example, pesticides imidacloprid and thiamethoxam have sugary solution.
In their study, the researchers from England’s Newcastle University found that low levels of neonicotinoids doesn’t affect bees because they cannot detect it. Neonicotinoids is the most common pesticide in the market today. They added that bees are attracted to pesticides with sucrose. Sucrose seems to affect the reward center of their brain, causing them to stay close to the said kind of pesticide.
In a different study, Neonicotinoids was found to be harmful to bee populations if used excessively. Neonicotinoids has been banned in Britain two years ago but it is still legal to use in the United States.
The study about bees and their possible addiction to sugary pesticide was published in the journal Nature.
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