More than 70% of pollen and honey samples collected from bees in Massachusetts had neonicotinoids
More than 70 percent of pollen and honey samples collected from foraging bees in Massachusetts contained neonicotinoids, a type of insecticide that has been linked to colony collapse disorder, researchers are reporting. The disorder causes adult bees to abandon their hives in winter.
In the new study, published in The Journal of Environmental Chemistry, researchers analyzed 219 pollen samples and 53 honey samples from 62 hives in 10 counties in Massachusetts. Honeybee colonies have experienced significant losses over the last decade, and the effects can be far-reaching: Bees are the prime pollinators of one-third of all crops worldwide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/science/honeybees-show-evidence-of-insecticide.html
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Last year was hell here in Calif. w/the drought. Two nasty infestations of bugs occurred, clothing moths and fleas galore everywhere to be found!
I called up a couple of "pet friendly" exterminators and believe me they are not pet friendly at all. One was to use neonicotinoids, the other some sort of chrysanthemum based product to solve the problem(s).
I didn't hire any of them and it turned out to be the job from hell getting rid of these pests, but they are indeed now gone without using any of the above.
Ass-busting work is what it took to conquer these pests and renting a huge dumpster and having many things hauled away and burned. That did it!
I suppose it would have been easier to pay someone to spray these chemicals around but I am not sure it would have solved the problem(s).
Glad I didn't do it now after reading this!
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