'Like it's been nuked': Millions of bees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes
Story Date: 9/2/2016

 

Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 9/1/16

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...

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