Zika pesticide sprayed from airplanes . . . kills millions of honeybees.

[pnwmom]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/01/like-its-been-nuked-millions-of-bees-dead-after-south-carolina-sprays-for-zika-mosquitoes/?hpid=hp_rhp-morning-mix_mm-bees%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

On Sunday morning, the South Carolina honey bees began to die in massive numbers.

Death came suddenly to Dorchester County, S.C. Stressed insects tried to flee their nests, only to surrender in little clumps at hive entrances. The dead worker bees littering the farms suggested that colony collapse disorder was not the culprit — in that odd phenomenon, workers vanish as though raptured, leaving a living queen and young bees behind.

Instead, the dead heaps signaled the killer was less mysterious, but no less devastating. The pattern matched acute pesticide poisoning. By one estimate, at a single apiary — Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply, in Summerville — 46 hives died on the spot, totaling about 2.5 million bees.

Walking through the farm, one Summerville woman wrote on Facebook, was “like visiting a cemetery, pure sadness.”


A Clemson University scientist collected soil samples from Flowertown on Tuesday, according to WCBD-TV, to further investigate the cause of death. But to the bee farmers, the reason is already clear. Their bees had been poisoned by Dorchester’s own insecticide efforts, casualties in the war on disease-carrying mosquitoes.

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[niyad]

1. as if the colony collapse was not bad enough already.

[G_j]

2. Idiots

another reason why local elections matter!

[TygrBright]

3. Oh, FFS.... how NOT to do it. Mosquito abatement need not kill bees. Assholes. n/t

[handmade34]

4. oh f*ck!

damn this is really bad news

[TygrBright]

5. And speaking of "How NOT to do it..."

CDC and NIH officials: How not to fight the Zika virus

It's not like we don't know how to deal with this stuff.

It's just that it costs money.

wearily,
Bright

[awoke_in_2003]

6. You know the repuke idiots

are going to ignore a "commie" organization like the CDC.

[we can do it]

7. IDIOTS- wtf is wrong with people?