Jeff Harris: Honey bee deaths predate ag chemicals
July 27, 2016
From: Delta Farm Press
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Environmental and anti-pesticide activists have made honey bee deaths “the poster child” of their ongoing crusade against ag chemicals, particularly neonicotinoids, says Jeff Harris.
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“In the long history of man’s relationship with honey bees, going back to Aristotle, who wrote the first manual on beekeeping, there have been many instances of unexplained colony losses — and many occurred long before agricultural pesticides came into widespread use.
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