 The California Department of Pesticide Regulation estimates that between 37-68% of pesticide illness among U.S. agricultural workers come as a result of pesticide drift.Insecticides sprayed on crop fields can also have detrimental effects on non-human life forms that are important to the surrounding ecosystems like bees and other insects.From 1998 to 2006, Environmental Health Perspectives found nearly 3,000 cases of pesticide drift, nearly half were workers on the fields treated with pesticides and 14% of cases were children under the age of 15.