Scientists hopeful antidote can help protect bumblebees from pesticides

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1. Or we could just not use them as they’re impacting on vital ecosystem services on which we all depend?!?!!?!

2. kinda hope this fails. an invention like this might lead to allowing more and more pesticides to be applied.

3. A qualified reviewer, like a toxicologist, would have rejected this fyi. Like it didn’t take long, lol.

   the gel acts like dietary fiber making imadacloprid less bioavailable, thus less toxic. There is no antidote, vaccine or other spurious claim.

   When and How this is administered IRL will matter; as if this isn’t already r/diywhy already.

   As stated, lethal and morbid doses of imadacloprid. In other words NOT environmentally relevant. Wow ppm, guys?

   They talk about a whole chemical class but only study one. Imadacloprid.

   Imadacloprid is used on several crops everywhere in the US. It however doesn’t overlap perfectly with bee pollinated crops. All pesticides have label instructions re: bees. Yes, exposure happens, I.e. drift, but they are not spraying bees m.k.

   Like, how won’t this end up in the honey. And more important how can flaw this significant go unaddressed. Like let’s see a dose response lethality curve for the gel.

   I don’t know why it’s so hard to design and execute a realistic exposure/dosing regime. Ooooh I know why, they aren’t trained to do toxicology research. Amateur.

   -An Environmental and Molecular Toxicologist.

   https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/show_map.php?year=2019&map=IMIDACLOPRID&hilo=L&disp=Imidacloprid

   http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/imidacloprid.html