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Europe has banned neonicotinoid insecticides. Action is needed in Africa too: A bee on a flowering plant ShutterstockFirst marketed in the late 1990s, neonicotinoid insecticides have become the world’s most widely used group of insecticides. They offer lower toxicity to mammals than the insecticides they replaced. But their systemic nature means that all parts of the plant … [Read more...] about Europe has banned neonicotinoid insecticides. Action is needed in Africa too | The Conversation