EPA says pesticide doing harm to bees
Pesticide Doing Harm to Bees Honeybees don’t just make honey, they actually pollinate more than 90 flowering crops: citrus, peaches, berries, melons, apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus and cucumbers, to name a few. It works out to about one-third of the human diet. These workers are imperative to farming and this is precisely why there has been much discussion and worry about the decline in honeybee populations, or colony collapse, that we’ve seen in recent years. Well, the EPA has finally finished their first study and has just published the results; testing a group of pesticides called “neonicotinoids” and...
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