Mosquito spray kills millions of bees

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...ns-of-bees

Beekeepers in Dorchester County sound downright apocalyptic when they talk about the impact of the spraying.

"We have a mass killing," Macke's wife told him.

"My bee yard looks like it's been nuked," Juanita Stanley, co-owner of Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply, told the Post and Courier.

Flowertown lost more than 2 million bees, Stanley says.

On Facebook, Flowertown posted photo after photo of piles of dead bees. The bee farm also posted images and videos of the burning of apiaries — which have to be destroyed now that they've been contaminated, the owners say.

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As if bees weren't having problems enough without that kind of carelessness.

[elte]

I remember there being so many honey bees around when I was a kid.