英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-01 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—18

 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 h*. You have a risk of drift. You have to wait for the right weather conditions, whereas if the plant is protected by the chemistry, coming up it grows. You'll avoid all of those steps.

-From the farmers' point of view, it's really useful.

-It's very useful.

-You are familiar with Professor M*'s work in Germany, where he showed neonicotinoids can have an effect on bees' navigational ability, and that makes being why we've been losing so many bees.

-It might explain it. And I'm not in anyway questioning his data. I think, at certain levels they will have sub* behavioral effects. Whether the amount that bees pick up by for by foraging¹ in crops that are treated neonicos are at the same level to give that effect. I don't know, and I don't think that has been shown.

-Why have some been banned by the EU?

-In my view, the lobbying went along with the fact that the neonicotinoids was suspected was so strong that in the end they got banned on the precautionary principle, on a just in-case principle.

-A lot of people are looking for clearer and simpler answers as to whether neonicotinoids are to blame, but the way that creatures are sensitive as bees intereact with their change against the enviornment is a complex one. For instance, in France, neonicotinoids were banned for a decade, and yet the decline continued, whereas in Australia, the pesticide² is still widely used, and the bees remain generally healthy. It just is complex. For me, the most important question here in Britain is about dose, and it affects neonicotinoids having low levels, the sort of levels you will find in the countryside.

1 foraging   

v.搜寻（食物），尤指动物觅（食）( forage的现在分词 )；（尤指用手）搜寻（东西）

参考例句：

• They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps. 他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The campers went foraging for wood to make a fire. 露营者去搜寻柴木点火。 来自辞典例句

2 pesticide   

n.杀虫剂，农药

参考例句：

• The pesticide was spread over the vegetable plot.菜田里撒上了农药。
• This pesticide is diluted with water and applied directly to the fields.这种杀虫剂用水稀释后直接施用在田里。