Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 7, 2012 @04:28AM from the eat-your-vegetables-honey dept.

hondo77 writes "Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health '...have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid.' This follows recently-reported studies also linked the disorder to neonicotinoid pesticides. What is really interesting is the link to when the disorder started appearing, 2006. 'That mechanism? High-fructose corn syrup. Many bee-keepers have turned to high-fructose corn syrup to feed their bees, which the researchers say did not imperil bees until U.S. corn began to be sprayed with imidacloprid in 2004-2005. A year later was the first outbreak of Colony Collapse Disorder.'"

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Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup

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