Bees (IMAGE)

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Bees

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A nonlethal dose of insecticide clothianidin can reduce honeybees' life span by half; once combined with the fungicide pyraclostrobin, it alters the behavior of worker bees to the point of endangering the whole colony.

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Cristiano Menezes (left) and Catalina Angel (right).

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