A large-scale field study finds that different bee species experience different levels of risk from pesticides, depending on how much land is farmed within their foraging range. For bumblebees and solitary bees, more seminatural habitat means less risk from pesticides, but this is not true for honeybees.
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Straw, E.A. Landscapes of pesticide risk. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 495–496 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02003-1
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