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Of Special Interest to Beekeepers
Apr. 6th, 2012 07:11 pmI found this at my cousin Paul's page and since I know of at least two people here who keep bees, I thought it needed re-posting.
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0405-hance_colonycollapse_pesticides.html
Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide-laced corn syrup
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
April 05, 2012
Scientists with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid. Bee populations have been dying mysteriously throughout North America and Europe since 2006, but the cause behind the decline, known as Colony Collapse Disorder, has eluded scientists. However, coming on the heels of two studies published last week in Science that linked bee declines to neonicotinoid pesticides, of which imidacloprid is one, the new study adds more evidence that the major player behind Colony Collapse Disorder is not disease, or mites, but pesticides that began to be widely used in the 1990s.
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http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0405-hance_colonycollapse_pesticides.html
Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide-laced corn syrup
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
April 05, 2012
Scientists with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid. Bee populations have been dying mysteriously throughout North America and Europe since 2006, but the cause behind the decline, known as Colony Collapse Disorder, has eluded scientists. However, coming on the heels of two studies published last week in Science that linked bee declines to neonicotinoid pesticides, of which imidacloprid is one, the new study adds more evidence that the major player behind Colony Collapse Disorder is not disease, or mites, but pesticides that began to be widely used in the 1990s.
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