Colony colapse disorder

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    As many of you may have come to realize I lve agriculture and have been involved in it in some form or another for many years. A few years back when posting on garden and plant websites a lot of us began to ask a puzzling question "where are all the bees?'". At the time there were many possible answers with no real solutions. All we could do was speculate. Meanwhile we have lost 90% of our feral bee population and beekepers have lost millions of dollars in lost revenue.

    Most of us (in the back of our minds) always suspected pesticides but had no hard evidence to back it up. Recent studies have changed that. A new group of pesticides called neonicotinoids have been linked with colony collapse disorder. These include clothianidin and imidacloprid. The pesticides are systemic. That means they are embedded in the cells of the plant.

    There are ways to combat this problem and the best one is to vote with your wallet. Plant untreated seed and if you think it needs some form of pest control use one of the older and less harmful to bees. Something that is NOT systemic. We need to demand seed that will not kill the best friend a gardener and the farmer has...the lowly bee.
     
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    Sorry about the spelling its early and they wouldn't let me edit.
     

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