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Environmental Factors

Five environmental factors impacting pollinator populations.

3. Pesticides

Studies have revealed that bumblebees exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides visited flowers less and collected less pollen – and that resulted in fewer seeds in the fruit. Two of the world's most widely used insecticides cause significant harm to bumblebee colonies, a new study has found.