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Scientist: Pesticides ‘First and Foremost’ in Bee Decline

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Reese Halter is a biologist at California Luthern University and author of The Incomparable Honeybee and the Economics of Pollination. Contact him through www.drreese.com. His interview, published today in Australia, reaffirms his belief that synthetic nicotine pesticides used to kill grubs in lawns are the “first and foremost” culprit in colony collapse disorder of bees: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s3061712.htm.

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