Environmental Effects Of Pesticides On Bees

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Pesticides are not always safe to humans, animals, or anywhere that is inhabited because pesticides are toxic to every living thing. Whenever farmers or normal pedestrians put pesticides on their plants or crops, they do not understand what they could be affecting in the long run. One of the main creatures that pesticides effects are Bees. The name of this pesticide is neonicotinoid it contains similarities to nicotine, this type of pesticide affect the Bees in memory loss, navigation disruption, paralysis, and even lead the bees to their death. Bees are to the only insects that pesticides harm, they also harm frogs as well whenever the pesticide run into the lakes, or ponds that they live in and contaminates their water which have caused frogs to sexual abnormalities from a Herbicide called Atrazine.

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