Pesticide exposure affects crop pollination by bees.

Article on Nigel Raine a professor from the School of Environmental Sciences  has found the first evidence that low-level neonicotinoid pesticide exposure affects the pollination services provided by bumblebees to an economically important crop.The study by environmental sciences professor Nigel Raine was published today in Nature.

“Until now, research on pesticide effects has been limited to direct effects on bees themselves,” said Raine, who headed the study that included researchers from Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Reading.