Dying Honeybees: It Was the Insecticides All Along By Jeanne Roberts, Celsias 28 January 12 http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/9659-dying-honeybees-it-was-the-insecticides-all-along
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I say one of the causes, because the article does. In
fact, the levels of neonicotinoid contamination of the powder used to
spread seeds - up to 700,000 times the lethal dose - suggest that this
pesticide may be the major, or precipitating, cause, with Varroa mites
and other problems simply the straw that breaks the camel’s back..."
read the entire article at the link above
For background on the bee collapse, and an analysis of how the pesticide industry co-opts science on the problem, see here:
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