But sudden bee disappearances and neonic claims seem tenuous, at least as overgeneralized.

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In another study, more than 30 percent of free-ranging honeybees whose brains were doused with the neonic thiamethoxam which is not the way bees encounter the chemical in the real world got confused, failing to return to the hive.

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Last year, one study showed that bumblebees exposed to high doses of the neonic imidacloprid in the lab, then released to forage in the field, had sharply reduced colony growth rates and produced 85 percent fewer queens to found new colonies.

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