But while recent research increasingly links neonics both to broader ecosystem problems and to serious health conditions in humans, the new state regulations focus only on protections for bees.

Source: https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/06/23/bee-killing-pesticides-common-in-gardening-products-could-face-new-limits-in-california/

In the United States, neonics have made agriculture 48 times more harmful to our vital pollinators since their introduction in the mid-1990s.

Source: https://www.27east.com/southampton-press/overwhelming-support-to-make-lipa-public-entity-at-southampton-hearing-2072579/

Systemic insecticides (placed on seeds before planting and spreading to all parts of a plant as it grows), called neonics, were also common in samples.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-11-pesticides-herbicides-fungicides-york-state.html

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not banned neonics yet, but this initial stance may be changing.

Source: https://sbpress.com/2023/12/environmental-advocacy-groups-urge-gov-kathy-hochul-to-pass-the-new-york-state-birds-and-bees-protection-act/

There have been no successful bans on the use of neonics in agriculture.

Source: https://kiowacountypress.net/content/bees-are-being-decimated-colorado-new-law-will-help