They also found that eating certain fungicides made bees more susceptible to infection by Nosema, a deadly microbe.

还发现吞食某种杀真菌剂使得蜜蜂更易受致命微生物微孢子虫感染。

They might have insecticide. They might have fungicide. They might have multiple different chemicals.

这些农药中可能有杀虫剂，也可能有杀菌剂，还可能含有多种不学物质。

But fungicides are essential to US agriculture, according to pesticide industry researcher Mike Leggett, with CropLife America.

但是就职于美国保协会农药工业研究院麦克·莱，杀真菌剂对美国农业来很重要。

But whole colonies are being ravaged by diseases and the use of pesticides and fungicides in farming.

但是整个蜂群都在遭受疾病以及农业上使用杀虫剂和杀菌剂蹂躏。

We scientists complained when we realized that the control fields had been treated with fungicides and other insecticides.

当我们发现控制区被杀菌剂和其他杀虫剂处理过之后，我们这些科学家抱怨许久。

" Fungicides are used, and have been used, pretty broadly, for centuries, for protection of plants from plant disease."

“几个世纪以来，为了保护作物不受物疾病困扰，杀菌剂一直用得很普遍。”

Yet fungicides are necessary to use for agricultural purposes in the United States. Mike Leggett studies pesticide for the pest management industry group -- CropLife America.

然而杀菌剂在美国农业各方面都是必要，迈克·莱在虫害管理行业机构美国作物生命协会研究农药。

You see, many consumers buy organic to avoid pesticides altogether, but the truth is, organic farmers can still use pesticides and fungicides to prevent insects from destroying their crops, they just can't be synthetically made.

你看，许多消费者购买有机食品是为了避免农药。但事实是，种有机食品农民仍然可以使用农药和杀菌剂来防止昆虫破坏他们作物，只是这些农药不是人造。