<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">New research out today from the University of Guelph <a href="https://1in3mouthfuls.org/">Raine Lab</a>: <br><br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0987-y">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0987-y</a><br><br>
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                            <h1 class="gmail-c-article-title gmail-u-h1">Moving beyond honeybee-centric pesticide risk assessments to protect all pollinators</h1>
                            <ul class="gmail-c-author-list gmail-js-list-authors gmail-js-etal-collapsed"><li class="gmail-c-author-list__item"><span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0987-y#auth-1" class="gmail-c-author-list__item-icon gmail-js-no-scroll">Elizabeth L. Franklin</a></span> & </li><li class="gmail-c-author-list__item"><span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0987-y#auth-2" class="gmail-c-author-list__item-icon gmail-js-no-scroll">Nigel E. Raine</a></span> </li></ul>
                            
                                
                            

                            <p class="gmail-c-article-info-details"><i>Nature Ecology & Evolution</i>
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                        <div class="gmail-c-article-section__content gmail-c-article-section__content--standfirst" lang="en"><p>Currently
 honeybees are the sole model insect pollinator for regulatory pesticide
 risk assessments globally. Here we question whether this surrogacy 
approach provides adequate protection against potential non-target 
impacts of pesticide exposure for the wide diversity of insect 
pollinators on which agricultural production and wild plant ecosystems 
depend.</p></div></div>

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