Originally Posted By: RAH
What herbicide is killing bees. As an entomologist, I would really like to know since we have bees on our place and often use herbicides. BTW - One species of wild bumble bee is listed as endangered, not the exotic European honey bee raised by bee keepers. Honey bees are now known to spread disease to wild bees and are contributing to the loss of native bees. Also, just because something seems "natural" does not make it safe.

http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/xerces-organic-approved-pesticides-factsheet.pdf

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...nators-disease/

This might be a good choice of herbicide:

https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/67F89CB7-D919-47DD-890F-EBABBBD32E6E/0/Imazapic.pdf

https://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/pesticide/pdfs/122304_Imazapic.pdf

And weed control recomendations

http://forages.tamu.edu/PDF/B-5038.pdf


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid

This is what is killing the honey bees. This is placed on seeds to prevent bugs from eating the seed before it starts to grow. The problem is the new air drills that plant the seeds. The air delivers the seed to the ground and the air then blows off the insecticide. This insecticide cloud then blows on to flowers that the bees land on. They take that back to the hive and kill the hive.

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