Bees face 'unprecedented' pesticide exposures at home and afield

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Bees face 'unprecedented' pesticide exposures at home and afield
Sometimes dozens of pesticides turn up in a single sample of wax or pollen
By Janet Raloff
Web edition : Sunday, March 21st, 2010


SAN FRANCISCO ? For years the news has been the same: Honey bees are being hammered by some mysterious environmental plague that has a name -- colony collapse disorder ? but no established cause. A two-year study now provides evidence indicting one likely group of suspects: pesticides. It found ?unprecedented levels? of mite-killing chemicals and crop pesticides in hives across the United States and parts of Canada.....