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  Scientists at ADAS and East Malling Research have come up with a novel way of using bumble bees to deliver minute quantities of bio-fungicide to strawberry flowers.
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  Honey bee colony losses are the worst since winter survival survey began.
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  A new report from the University of Reading shows that the population of Britain’s largest mining bee, the Scabious Bee, has fallen dramatically. It is now only confined to small pockets mostly in the South West.
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  EU states are due to to vote today on whether to restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths.
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  More than 100 people have staged a protest in Parliament Square against the government’s policy on neonicotinoid pesticides, which many scientists blame for the decline in bees.
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  Waitrose is asking fruit, vegetable and flower suppliers to avoid using pesticides linked with bee declines.
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  Greenpeace has added its voice to those calling for a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, fearing the chemicals damage bees.
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  An influential cross-party committee of MPs has published a damning report about the UK’s "extraordinary complacency" over the use of pesticides linked to serious harm in bees.
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  The Switzerland-based pesticide multinational Syngenta has urged the European Commission retract its proposal to restrict the use of neonicotinoid technology, claiming the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) report on the risks to bees from their use was “fundamentally flawed.”
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