Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Pesticides kill over ten million bees in Brazil's countryside...

In Porto Ferreira, a city in the countryide of São Paulo state, over 10 million honey bees were killed in a matter of days by airborne spread pesticides.

The pesticides were sprayed over several properties of the region, many cultivating honey. In a matter of days 136 beehives were destroyed, ending four decades of work. "Not even the queen bees managed to survive" says Wanderley Fardin, owner of the hives. "The ground is littered with dead bees. Those that are left are flying about with nowhere to go."

Fardin informs that he owned nine apiaries on the lands which recieved the spray and says that pesticides caused the death of his bees. An event which he filmed. According to the people responsible, the pesticides were used to kill insects affecting the planting of sugarcane fields in the area.

The mass death of bees, which according to the owner occurred after several days of spraying, generated a loss of about one ton of honey a year and R$200,000 in financial losses. Full story...

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