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Banned pesticides – experts including Wildlife Trusts react

January 2021 The three most commonly used neonicotinoid insecticides were banned entirely for agricultural use in 2018 by the EU, a decision that the UK government supported. This decision was the culmination of decades of scientific research showing beyond doubt that these insecticides were harming bees and other wild insects, and more generally were polluting soils, leaching in to freshwater systems, and contaminating wildflowers and hedgerow shrubs. Neonicotinoids are harmful to insect life in miniscule amounts; for example just one...