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.
Click on the link to read the rest of the article: High number of pesticides within colonies linked to honey bee deaths: Some compounds commonly regarded as ‘bee-safe’ could be a major contributor to honey bee colony losses in North America — ScienceDaily