New Study Linking Honeybee Deaths To Pesticides Rouses Public Outcry

Public outcry is growing as the results of a new study, supporting the growing consensus that American honeybees are dying en masse from exposure to controversial pesticides, reverberate through the national consciousness. The two common insecticides examined in the report, dubbed neonicotinoids, were identified in the study as being key contributors to the phenomenon known as "Colony Collapse Disorder," or CCD. The term was coined to describe an alarming trend of honeybees abandoning their hive...