It looks like the folks at Harvard School of Public Heath's Department of Environmental Health have the answer on why our bees are all dying.In their Bulletin of Insectology #67 the blame is squarely placed on the pesticides we are using. From the paper...
"...sub-lethal exposure of neonicotinoids, imidacloprid or clothianidin, affected the winterization of healthy colonies that subsequently lead to CCD. We found bees in both control and neonicotinoid- treated groups progressed almost identically through the summer and fall seasons and observed no acute morbidity or mortality in either group until the end of winter."
My question is whether this will become just another political football with nothing getting done about it except fundraising for election campaigns.
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