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Pesticides Killing Bees Globally

  • Writer: Ken Bryan
    Ken Bryan
  • May 12, 2014
  • 1 min read

Pesticides are directly responsible for a massive decline in the bee population in North America and Europe, a new study out of Harvard University says.

The report, which is published in the June edition of the Bulletin of Insectology, concludes that corn, potato and soybean pesticides containing neonicotinoid chemicals are directly to blame for a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder (CCD).

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/pesticides-likely-main-culprit-in-bee-deaths-harvard-study-1.1815859#ixzz31STOlSDt

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