Australian grocery giant will join Bunnings to withdraw Yates Confidor from sale
Woolworths in Australia has joined a growing list of companies to stop supplying a controversial pesticide linked to global declines in bee populations.
On Tuesday the grocery giant announced it would join Bunnings in pulling Yates Confidor, a class of pesticide which some international studies have found damage the survival of honeybee colonies.
Related: Quarter of British honey contaminated with bee-harming pesticides, research reveals
Related: Alarming link between fungicides and bee declines revealed