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What’s Killing All the Bees?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, bee, bees, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, honey, honeybee, insecticides, Jeff Merkley, neonics, organic, pesticides, pollen, pollinate, pollination, pollinator

Activists would like the U.S. government to ban a class of insecticides called neonics that they blame for wiping out the bees that pollinate a majority of our food crops.

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Five (or more) Things to Know about Bees and Beekeeping

Robbie Shell beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, bees on the roof, honey, honey bees, honeybees

Bees on the Roof author Robbie Shell talks bees, beekeeping, honey and why we need to save the world’s honeybees…

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