Scientists loved and loathed by an agrochemical giant

Exeter, England

THE bee findings were not what Syngenta expected to hear.

The pesticide giant had commissioned James Cresswell, a specialist in flowers and bees at the University of Exeter in England, to study why many of the world's bee colonies were dying. Companies such as Syngenta have long blamed a tiny bug called a varroa mite, rather than their own pesticides, for the bee decline.