Friday, December 10, 2010

Beekeepers Suggest Pesticide is Destroying Insect Colonies

Beekeepers Suggest Pesticide is Destroying Insect Colonies: "
by Rick Wills

A coalition of beekeepers and environmentalists is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to remove a pesticide from the market because it might kill honeybees.

The request is in response to the leak of an internal EPA document that questions the scientific underpinning of the 2003 approval of clothianidin, a Bayer CropScience product used extensively on corn, the coalition said.

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