Andreas Scherer

Last fall, Jason and Jennifer Helvenston of College Park, Orlando, Florida were ordered by local officials to remove their front yard vegetable garden at a time when Orlando was touting its environmental credentials and reaching out to citizens for input on what additional steps the city could take

In a study led by the French National Institute of Agricultural Research, researchers glued special radio frequency tags to bees and then fed them low doses of neonicotinoid, a popular pesticide that is supposed to kill crop pests without harming the bees that pollinate them. The research team