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European Commission proposes 10-year glyphosate extension (www.farminguk.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bernieecclestoned to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glyphosate doesn't affect insects

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It shouldn't. But there's a few studies that find a correlation with bee mortality. For example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721004654#

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, meta studies are suspicious as hell to me. I could believe that in field trials there might be slopover from neocotininids, but I have not heard of a mechanism that glyphosate could use to affect bees, and this study doesn't idenfify one either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here you go:

Conclusions: Exposure of honey bees to glyphosate or tylosin can reduce the abundance of beneficial gut bacteria and lead to immune dysregulation.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35193702/