Growing concern over the spread of the Zika virus in the United States is leading to extreme prevention measures that are sadly harming bees. In areas where mosquitoes are widespread, South Carolina authorities are using massive doses of insecticides that have led to a real bee death.
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The growing concern over the spread of the Zika virus in the United States it is leading to extreme preventive measures which unfortunately are damaging api. In areas where the mosquitoes are widespread, the South Carolina authorities are using massive doses of insecticides which led to a real bee death: more than 3 million in a single day!
The bees are unfortunately victims of these actions in South Carolina where four cases of Zika virus infection have been reported in people who had traveled abroad.
In Summerville there was an accidental and unexpected death of bees, which evidently had not been calculated. Without bees, the ecosystems of our planet cannot develop properly with a real alteration of the cycles of nature.
Some pesticides, such as Monsanto's Pyriproxypheno, continue to threaten bees along with the loss of natural habitats. Now the problem of spreading the Zilka virus through mosquitoes represents a new risk factor for pollinating insects.
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Millions of bees have been found dead in Summerville after the massive use of insecticides against mosquitoes Zika, specifically a product called Trumpet. Bees ready to produce honey for the winter which instead were found massed lifeless with small suns in the hives. According to Juanita Stanley, co-founder of Flowertown Bee Farm & Supply, in Summerville 46 hives and more than 3 million bees would have disappeared in a single day.
The bees that survived were however poisoned by pesticides, so now we are forced to destroy all hives and honey, as they are contaminated. It was an unannounced aerial spraying, so nothing could be done to protect the hives. The pesticide spraying took place at 8 am, when the bees were outdoors, among flowers and fields.
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Those who decide to use insecticides against the spread of the Zika virus certainly want to protect the population but given that bees are already at high risk they had to think about them too and, if anything - according to Flowertown Bee Farm & Supply - use pesticides at night, when bees would be safe.
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