Honey bees are critical to agriculture as they pollinate approximately 35 per cent of the global food crop, contributing an estimated $4.39 billion per year to the Canadian economy
In 17 percent of colonies analyzed in a recent Cornell study, the bees' food stores revealed the presence of acutely high levels of pesticide exposure, while 73 percent were found to have chronic exposure
Chemists have developed a method that produces cyclic depsipeptides in a single step with high yields and in unusually large sizes, ranging up to rings with 60 atoms