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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Millions of bees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika

On Sunday morning, the South Carolina honey bees began to die in massive numbers.

Death came suddenly to Dorchester County, S.C. Stressed insects tried to flee their nests, only to surrender in little clumps at hive entrances. The dead worker bees littering the farms suggested that colony collapse disorder was not the culprit — in that odd phenomenon, workers vanish as though raptured, leaving a living queen and young bees behind.

Instead, the dead heaps signaled the killer was less mysterious, but no less devastating. The pattern matched acute pesticide poisoning. By one estimate, at a single apiary — Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply, in Summerville — 46 hives died on the spot, totaling about 2.5 million bees.

Walking through the farm, one Summerville woman wrote on Facebook, was “like visiting a cemetery, pure sadness.”

A Clemson University scientist collected soil samples from Flowertown on Tuesday, according to WCBD-TV, to further investigate the cause of death. But to the bee farmers, the reason is already clear. Their bees had been poisoned by Dorchester’s own insecticide efforts, casualties in the war on disease-carrying mosquitoes.

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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are trying to kill us all... but if the bees go we all go, and I mean everything... Without bees no plants will be alive except the GMO Monsanto crap...

Anonymous said...

I will bet your life that not only is this poison being sprayed to kill zika, is being sprayed to kill all of us, and even the bees becasue without bees nothing will get pollinated and grow... Especially food... and I will guarantee you one thing right here and now, this spraying to kill of the zika virus won't do a damn thing to stop it and you will hear them, the govt say we need to spray more or in heavier doses or something like that...

Anonymous said...

Wait until you start to see people getting caners and health problems in that area of the praying... Mark my words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Zika is fake.

Anonymous said...

What are they thinking!!!!
Without the Bees----in
a short while ----there
will be no people !!!

Anonymous said...

as if chemtrails aren't enough

Anonymous said...

Bees lives matter..seriously

Anonymous said...

they should spray on president osamas golf course

Anonymous said...

The fake Zika spraying is being blamed to deflect attention away from the true source of bee deaths.
GMO organisms and Round Up.

Steve said...

Zika has been around for a hundred years. Stop spraying.

Anonymous said...

Maybe that was the plan all along...without bee's we can't grow our own food.

Anonymous said...

Do any of you nut jobs actually read your posts before hitting the publish button?
Too many dark days in the parents basement. Step into the light!!

Anonymous said...

758, please explain?