Source: FARM PROGRESS, 12/13/16


Neonicotinoids, the most widely used class of insecticides, significantly reduce populations of predatory insects as much as 10% to 20% when used as seed coatings. That’s the bottom line of recent Penn State University research. That surprising finding challenges the previously held belief that neonicotinoid seed coatings have little to no effect on predatory insect populations. 

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