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Is Pesticide Killing Bees


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Research published in  Nature this week points to the fact that pesticide is harming honey bees thus adding to the population decline of the species.
Pesticides  where subject to a test where bees where given a choice of food one with pesticide in the other without and the bees appeared to prefer the contaminated food. 

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