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Top USDA Bee Researcher Also Found Bayer Pesticide Harmful to Honeybees
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, food, pesticides, research )

Julie
- 489 days ago - grist.org
According to a report the lead researcher at the USDA's very own Bee Research Laboratory completed research two years ago suggesting that even extremely low levels of exposure to neonicotinoids makes bees more vulnerable to harm from common pathogens. ,
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Featured Article - Heat Forms Potentially Harmful Substance in High-Fructose Corn Syrup
Science & Tech  (tags: high fructose corn syrup, toxic substance, honeybees, colony collapse disorder, research, science, discovery )

Judy
- 1001 days ago - labspaces.net
Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees. This could also have implications for human consumption of HFCS.
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Pesticides Indicted in Bee Deaths
Science & Tech  (tags: honeybees, pollinators, colony collapse disorder, pesticides, farming, environment )

Judy
- 1104 days ago - salon.com
"They're not making decisions about whether the pesticide can be put on the market based on impacts to bees, no matter how much evidence of harm there is," Colangelo says. "The EPA will just approve it anyway and put a warning label on the product."
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Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees
Science & Tech  (tags: honeybees, pollinators, colony collapse disorder, honeybee disappearance, research )

Judy
- 1137 days ago - sciam.com
"The mysterious ailment known as Colony Collapse Disorder has wiped out large numbers of bees that pollinate a third of our crops. The cause turns out to be surprisingly complex, but solutions are emerging..."
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Honeybees In Danger
Science & Tech  (tags: honeybees, pesticides, pollinators, colony collapse disorder, parathion )

Judy
- 1139 days ago - truthout.org
Never in history have honeybees and other pollinators been in such danger. Populations have declined up to 60% in 2009. In 1974 the EPA approved an encapsulated form of nerve gas parathion with time-released pesticide particles the size of pollen grains.
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Bee Colony Collapse Disorder: Could It Be Parasites, Pathogens Or Pesticides?
Science & Tech  (tags: Honey bees, colony collapse disorder, mites, pollination )

Mary
- 1840 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Scientists are working hard to understand the sources of a staggering decline in honeybees in as many as 27 U.S. states and countries in Europe and Asia this winter.....about 25 percent of the deaths this year cannot be attributed to mites or any other...
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