> She said beekeepers never paid attention to the effect of pesticides on pollinators until they experienced massive bee kills in 2012.

Huh? Beekeepers have been concerned about the effects of pesticides since the days of arsenic sprays. This is from 1889:

Mr. John G. Smith, Barry, Illinois, writes: "One of my
neighbors owning an orchard of about one hundred acres of apple trees,
sprayed the trees with Paris green and water just as they were in full bloom.
The result is that ten or twelve bee keepers are ruined."

PLB

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