Modern pesticides damage the brain of bees so they can’t move in a straight line

Image: Shutterstock. Article by Mischa Dijkstra. Frontiers –  August 17, 2022.

Researchers show for the first time that honeybee foragers exposed to the pesticides sulfoxaflor and imidacloprid have an impaired optomotor response, which makes them poor at keeping themselves on a straight trajectory while moving. This impairment is accompanied by damage to brain cells and dysregulation of detoxification genes. These results add to the growing evidence that modern pesticides are highly damaging to beneficial insects like bees. […]

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