Honeybees Pick Up an Alarming Number of Pesticides from Non-Crop Plants, Purdue Researchers Find

1st July 2016

By Carolanne Wright

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Honeybees have had a hard time over the last several decades — colony collapse disorder, habitat destruction and exposure to increasing levels of chemicals in the environment. Approximately 40% of bee colonies in the U.S. perished last year, and the numbers are climbing.

Dr. Dennis van Engelsdorp, an entomologist from the University of Maryland, believes there are three factors influencing the decline in honeybees: The varroa mite, poor nutrition and pesticides. Researchers are especially concerned about the latest findings from Purdue University, which found honeybees pick up an ‘astonishing’ level of pesticides during their rounds — much higher than previously thought.

Decline of the Honeybee:

Below are the three components listed by Dr. van Engelsdorp that are synergistically wiping out the bee population in the United States:

Varroa destructor mites are assumed to have migrated to the U.S. in the 1980s. The mites latch onto the honeybee and suck its blood — leading to death in many. Unfortunately, the mite spreads easily from one colony to another, killing entire populations of the insect.

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