Pesticide failure blamed for declining bee population
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 16:14
in Biology & Nature
Pesticides designed to protect honeybees are losing their effectiveness, say agricultural researchers, leading to a second year in a row of heavy colony losses across Canada.
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