Microencapsulated Pesticides a Threat to Honeybees
This article on Alternet discusses the particular threat that microencapsulated pesticides pose to honeybees pollinators. Honeybees, the pollinators of a majority of our agricultural crops, are currently facing a mass die-off due to a number of disputed factors.
In 1974, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency licensed the nerve gas parathion trapped into nylon bubbles the size of [...]