Dangerous volumes of neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides are expressed in common wild flowers like buttercups and hawthorn blossom in countryside under arable cultivation, a new study has discovered. The discovery invalidates the UK government’s ‘pollinator strategy’ based on creating ‘safe havens’ in arable areas – because the havens are in fact loaded with pesticides.

Click on the link to read the rest of the article: New research exposes hidden cocktail of bee-killing pesticides in hedgerows and wildflowers – The Ecologist