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		arethuza on Dec 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: English rivers polluted by neonicotinoids, first t... If that is the Dubh loch at the head of Glen Muick then I wonder how on earth stuff would get in there - it's fairly remote and reasonably high up. No farming territory for miles. I wonder if anti-midgie lotions have these things in them?

xiaq on Dec 15, 2017 | [–]

They can travel through the air (which was how DDT ended up in Antarctica).

ainiriand on Dec 15, 2017 | [–]

It can be through the capilarity of the soil. Just a possibility.

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