>
> More Damning Evidence Points to Pesticide as Cause of Mass Bee Deaths
> Bayer-produced imidacloprid harmful to bees even at very low levels
>
> A new study published in Naturwissenschaften - The Science of Nature by a
> leading bee expert provides damning evidence that a widely used pesticide,
> even at low levels, is responsible for the recent catastrophic decline in
> honey bees. Dr. Jeff Pettis of the USDA's Bee Research Laboratory in
> Beltsville, MD led the study.
>
> Colony collapse disorder, as this phenomenon is known, has been getting
> worse since 2006.
>
> The news has brought renewed calls for these pesticides, which only became
> widely used in the 1990s, to be banned as honey bees are key to human's
> survival - pollinating 70 per cent of the crops which produce most of the
> world's food...
>
> For full text of article:
> http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/30-9
>
> For abstract and full citation for study in Naturwissenschaften:
> http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=p1027164r403288u&size=largest
Best Regards,
Sharon Muczynski LEEDŽ AP
Ecology M.S. Candidate
San Diego State University
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