Not so sweet: 75 percent of honey samples had key pesticide
Story Date: 10/9/2017

 

Source: Seth Borenstein, WRAL, 8/5/17

When researchers collected honey samples from around the world, they found that three-quarters of them had a common type of pesticide suspected of playing a role in the decline of bees. Even honey from the island paradise of Tahiti had the chemical.
That demonstrates how pervasive a problem the much-debated pesticide is for honeybees, said authors of a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

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