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Canada Admits Pesticides Are Killing Mass Amounts Of Bees

Ontario, Canada Admits Pesticides Are Killing Mass Amounts Of Bees. Here’s What They’re Doing About It Is it a little to late? It seems that we’ve known for years that pesticides are killing millions of bees, if not billions. More specifically, it’s neonicotinoid pesticides that have been targeted as the culprit, and the province of Ontario, Canada is doing something about it. Ontario’s government recently made the decision that neonicotinoid pesticide use will be reduced by 80 percent no later than 2017. Neonicotinoid insecticides persist in very high levels in planter exhaust material produced during the planting of crops treated… View Article