According to new research European honeybees are being poisoned with as many as 57 different pesticides. The alarming discovery was made by a team from the National Veterinary Research Institute in Poland using a method, more commonly used to detect pesticides in food, to analyse poisoned bees for a range of substances. Using the new method researchers hope they may be able help unravel the mystery behind the widespread decline of honeybees in recent years and develop an approach to saving them. The study has been published in the Journal of Chromatography Phys.org reports: Honeybees are under threat globally: in the US, dramatic declines in bee populations due to a condition called colony collapse disorder (CCD) continues to put crops at risk an farmers out of business. Several studies have shown a link between pesticide use and bee deaths and the European Union has banned the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. But it’s not as simple as banning one pesticide that’s killing bees; the relationship between pesticide use and bee death is complex and scientists are still trying to figure out exactly what’s happening. In the new study, researchers from the National Veterinary Research Institute in Poland have developed a method [...]