EnvironmentIreland's National Parks and Wildlife Service traced the invasive pollinator predator to a nest near Ringaskiddy within hours by attaching miniature transmitters to hornets.
EnvironmentA citizen scientist recorded the solitary bee, first seen in Ireland in 2021 and so far known only in the south-east, at Sixmilebridge; experts ask farmers to delay cutting ivy-covered hedges until winter.
EnvironmentA single hornet was photographed and captured in Ringaskiddy; rangers found no further activity, a year after two nests were removed in Co. Cork.
A proposed settlement with NRDC sets a firm date for ruling on food tolerances for acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.
CropsThe TRF3 panel found 'qualified administrative inertia' after Ibama's re-evaluations of imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam sat unimplemented for years; Ibama has 360 days to finish its fipronil review.
CropsA proposed settlement with the Natural Resources Defense Council commits the US Environmental Protection Agency to decide by 30 April 2027 whether to revoke food-residue tolerances for acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.
Turpin Farms near Cincinnati, in the same family since 1785 and an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award winner, uses endophyte grasses, mycorrhizae and growth regulators to turn out turf in four to five months instead of a year or two.
The 4th Panel of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region ruled unanimously that MAPA must formalise the prohibition on aerial application of imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam across all crops, finding 'qualified administrative inertia' after Ibama's re-evaluations of 2021 and 2024; Ib
A FERN/bioGraphic investigation from raspberry fields near Osorno: Chile has imported 1,633,011 Bombus terrestris colonies and queens since 1997 for berries and greenhouse crops, and the endangered Bombus dahlbomii, Patagonia's only endemic bumblebee, is down 50-90%; researchers say the European b
Vegetable growers working with WASSAN in Andhra Pradesh's dry Rayalaseema are rebuilding the habitat that pollinators, spiders, ladybirds and soil fungi need, zinnia strips along fields, companion crops, staggered planting, farm ponds, trees on bunds and cloth ground cover that keeps soil cool and
CropsUSDA's Plant Protection and Quarantine programme and three south-eastern states are stepping up trapping and surveys after the invasive hornet, first found in Georgia in 2023, was confirmed in North Carolina.
