Ministers spark fury for allowing emergency use of butterfly-killing pesticide

Rebecca Speare-Cole, Press Association Sustainability Reporter Ministers have sparked fury among wildlife campaigners for allowing the extended use of a pesticide that can kill bees and butterflies.

Sugar beet farmers are usually only allowed to spray a product containing “acetamiprid” on their crops once a year to control peach-potato aphids – insects that transmit disease […]

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