In place of dodgy dealings with foreign leaders, this case involves the German agrichemical giant Bayer; a pesticide with an unpronounceable name, clothianidin; and an insect species crucial to ...

The document, which was leaked to a Colorado beekeeper, shows that the EPA has ignored warnings about the use of clothianidin, a pesticide produced by Bayer that mainly is used to pre-treat corn ...

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2017 - The Environmental Protection Agency may have to assess the effects on endangered species of 59 products containing clothianidin and thiamethoxam, two neonicotinoid ...

In May 2013, the European Commission (the EU’s executive branch) banned the use of three neonicotinoids—imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin—on flowering crops attractive to pollinators as well ...

Syngenta, Bayer and Valent U.S.A. agreed to the voluntary cancellation of a dozen registrations containing clothianidin and thiamethoxam as part of a lawsuit filed in 2013 challenging the ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that the neonicotinoid pesticide clothianidin disrupts different parts of bumble bee bodies in strikingly different ways. The ...

The new study found low doses of a second neonicotinoid, clothianidin, had the same negative effect. Two widely used neonicotinoids -- a class of insecticide -- appear to significantly harm honey ...

This includes 25 insect species and more than 160 plants dependent on insect pollination. The new finding on clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam comes one year after the agency completed ...

The EPA’s assessments of clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam marked the first time the agency has completed biological evaluations of any neonicotinoids’ harms to the nation’s most imperiled ...

Swedish research published in 2015—two years after the EU imposed a moratorium on the use of three popular neonicotinoids, clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam—found that wild bees in ...