Pollinator Politics: Environmentalists Criticize Obama Plan To Save Bees

Pollinator Politics: Environmentalists Criticize Obama Plan To Save Bees

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The buzz around bees has been bad lately. As we’ve reported, beekeepers say they lost 42 percent of honeybee colonies last summer.

And it seems that fixing what ails bees is no simple task. Over the past few decades, they’ve been hit by diseases and habitat loss. There’s also increasing evidence that a type of pesticides called neonicotinoids are linked to bees’ decline, too.

This could be bad news for all of us, since bees and other pollinators are critical to our food supply.

Pollinator Politics: Environmentalists Criticize Obama Plan To Save Bees

-NPR “The Salt,” 5/20/2015

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