separate the pesticides from the honey somehow. Researchers at the University of Waterloo created an eco-friendly, completely automated technique that extracts honey’s pesticides.
This way, the worker bees will not leave the hive, and colony collapse disorder may improve.“Pyrethroids are poorly soluble in water and are actually suspended in honey,” said Janusz Pawliszyn, a chemistry professor at Waterloo. “We add a small amount of alcohol to dissolve them prior to extraction by the automated SPME system.”When farmers spray the pesticides on crops, it affects the functioning of insects’ nerves and brains.
This can lead to paralysis and ultimately death in certain species. Pesticides have been classified as neurotoxins, which is any substance.
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