An alcoholic drink that includes nicotine as an ingredient. Usually made with vodka in which tobacco has been soaked. Generally billed as an alternative for smokers in smoke-free establishments.
> After the citywide smoking ban came into effect, my only option was to drink an occassional nicotini while barhopping.

Over 2 years of study, Randolf has shown that these doses neonicotinoids do affect bees' higher cognitive processes, especially their memory of the landscape around them.-We tested about 200 bees, both controlled bees and pestcide-treated bees, and w

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2013年

-There are at least pieces of evidence which show really serious impacts from levels of neonicotinoids that bees, wild bees could be exposed to in wild environment.And the arguement against the ban was laid out by one of the pesticide manufacturers.

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Agriculture Report - New Findings About Loss of Bees This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars a year to the value of American crops. They pollinate flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetab

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Studies Link Bee Decline to Insecticide Billion-dollar bees Bees pollinate the flowers that become fruits, nuts and vegetables. The work these insects do is worth about $18 billion a year to U.S. farmers. But honeybee colonies in the United States ha

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Lin has recently become R* spokesperson in the neonicotinoid debate.-The big advantage of neonicotinoids is that you can plant the seed already treated. It means the farmer doesn't have to spray. If you've got to spray, it's very expensive. It's got

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 22 January 2007 watch Nicotine Potency report The U.S. tobacco industry is under fire again from health experts who claim manufacturers boosted levels of nicotine in cigarettes over a seven-year period. Details of a n

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EU Hopes Pesticide Ban Will Halt Bee Decline The targeted farm chemicals, which will be banned for two years starting this December 1, belong to a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. They are a type of insect nerve agent that has been widely

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Todd: OK, Jessica, we are going to talk about cooking. 杰西卡,我们来谈一谈做饭。 Jessica: OK. 好的。 Todd: Now, you like to cook! 你喜欢做饭! Jessica: Yes. 是的。 Todd: OK. What can you cook? 你会做什么? Jessica: I c

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A: Hello! How do I restock my minibar? B: You've drunk everything, sir? A: I finished it all. B: Do you want the whole minibar, or just certain items? A: Send me up three bottles each of Perrier and Jim Beam. B: That's three Jim Beams and three Perri

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Over the last year, beekeepers in the U.S. lost nearly half their honeybee hives. And there are a lot of suspected culprits for this so-called beepocalypsefrom parasitic mites, to viruses, to simple land use changes. But a study out earlier this year

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学英语单词
absolute unit
acid earth
adrianople red
air suction port
ancient valley
ancillaries
armature characteristic
avicultures
Ballinagar
batt joint
bertelsmann
blood-staunching
boadways
calculating price
chemical action or process
chemical synapse
chondromitome
circling disease(ruminants)
close link chain
coefficient of flexibilty of price
commodity tax
connection scheme of power system operation
crane load compensator
dead bright
desired service
developmental grooves
diclofurime
Die Shift
double Napoleons
DQDB
effective full power year(efpy)
empty and load changeover cock
execute key
fast ball
ferruginous laterite
fire-and-brimstones
fire-related
first-order closure model
foreign sales branch
foreslack
free blowing
frock-coats
hardass
hedgepigs
Hessheim
hyperconnected
Ibuye
immediate consequence
inertia vibrating shakeout machine
inflation-protection
inflexive
intentional killing
isogemichalcone
Jaloallophane
jetpacking
kerins
lactin
lineae mamillaris
lovelies
lower half bearing
makam
maritime partnership
maritime ports convention
narcotraffic
net hoisting time
nt server
nucleus originis accessorius (parasympathicus) n. oculomotorii
oblique ridge
oppose against
paleencephalon
presetting circuit
professional duty
proportional divisor
prusiking
railway administration toll communication network
real - time information
rearick
requensance
restate
restriction of connection
roll-welded (monolayered) cylinder
Russey
Ryznar stability index
sao tiago
sebastianite
selfinteraction
separating prism
Smith, Oliver
space-charge field
spineback
stethoscopy
strawberry shortcakes
system of cutting
thermal limit
tin oxide film
to get to
toothache caused by fire of deficiency type
top ranking
towbacks
volcanic desert
wizard