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Popular herbicide weakens bumblebees’ color vision

Roundup, a herbicide containing glyphosate, can harm bumblebees’ success.

Finnish researchers have studied how Roundup, a glyphosate based herbicide, can damage the learning, memory, and vision of bumblebees. With weakened color vision, this study showed how it can impair bumblebees’ foraging and nesting success.