perhrhaps 70% of the neonicotinoids usesed on soybeans in a seed treatment are not needed. there's nono pest tt they're controlling. so ifif we just use them only when they were needed, we c could eliminae inseseicide use e over millionsf acres. >> many people would say we need pesticides to grow the food to feed the growing world, the human population, and that maybe it's a necessary evil to sacrifice some wildlife along the way. fine. so you then look to see, to try to weigh up the damage that neonicotinoids seem to be doing against the benefit we get from them in terms of increased crop yield. and amazingly, it turns out there's virtually no evidence that they're actually effective. so there have been a whole sway of studies, particularly from north america, come out in the last year or two where they've simply grown crops with and without seed dressing and find that they get exactly the same yield without the seed dressing as they do with it. >> some a actions arere being tn to curb ththe use of n neonics.n eeuropetthe european ununion banned 3 neonics s for a periof tw