Story: Honeybee Decline, Pesticides, and Leaked Documents

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Oh, it stings, it stings! Top USDA bee researcher also found Bayer pesticide harmful to honeybees (by Tom Philpott – Grist)

EXCERPT: Remember the case of the leaked document showing that the EPA’s own scientists are concerned about a pesticide it approved that might harm fragile honeybee populations?

Well, it turns that the EPA isn’t the only government agency whose researchers are worried about neonicotinoid pesticides. USDA researchers also have good evidence that these nicotine-derived chemicals, marketed by German agrichemical giant Bayer, could be playing a part in Colony Collapse Disorder—the mysterious massive honeybee die-offs that United States and Europe have been experiencing in recent years. So why on earth are they still in use on million of acres of American farmland?