http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2012/05/29/pesticides-linked-to-bee-deaths

BURGESSVILLE - It’s not what has been confirmed worrying a Burgessville
beekeeper, it’s what hasn’t been confirmed.

Test results released to QMI Agency this week from the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food (OMAFRA) show the majority of dead bee samples
collected during the past month include residue of a widely used corn
pesticide.

The pesticide, Clothianidin, was found in 28 out of the 37 samples tested
as of Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of dead bees were found in piles outside hives across
the province in early May, triggering an investigation by OMAFRA, the
Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Health Canada.

Samples are still being collected and testing is continuing.

“We’re just at the beginning of solving this problem,” said John Van
Blyderveen, owner of Oxford Honey and Supplies in Burgessville.

In the past month, about 25% of his bees have died.

On a trip to a set of his hives located just outside of Tillsonburg last
week he found somewhere between 5,000 to 8,000 dead bees lying just outside
the entrances.

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