High number of pesticides within colonies linked to honey bee deaths

Bee by Paul Lund

Bee by Paul Lund. Taken in Paul’s garden using two flash guns to freeze motion.

Honey bee colonies in the United States have been dying at high rates for over a decade, and agricultural pesticides — including fungicides, herbicides and insecticides — are often implicated as major culprits. Until now, most scientific studies have looked at pesticides one at a time, rather than investigating the effects of multiple real-world pesticide exposures within a colony.

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