Pesticides and pollinators

The European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) has published new guidance about bee health.

I’m glad that this is happening. That EFSA considers several different ways that bees can be exposed to pesticides.

Also, I’m glad that EFSA takes wild bees and other pollinating insects seriously. As Damian Carrington at the Guardian tells us, it’s not just honeybees that pollinate plants. He tells of evidence that, across the world now, wild bees and other insects are twice as effective as honeybees in producing seeds and fruit on crops.