Cedar Writes
Cedar Sanderson
July 31, 2018
I repeat, the bees are fine. Of course, before I get too much further, let me define bee in this context.
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Looking, for the moment, at honeybees in particular, we are seeing that far from being devastated by Colony Collapse Disorder, there has been an increase in their numbers. The pesticide most often blamed for bee death is neonicotinoids, which are applied to crops and taken up into the plants to kill pests when they eat the plant. Which bees do not, so you may be pardoned confusion over how bees are affected by this. The neonics are taken up into pollen, which bees do eat. However, “there is no scientific evidence to link neonicotinoids as the major cause of colony declines†even when the bees were fed 20 times the amount normally expected to be found in their usual foraging.
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