State officials in #Oregon are temporarily restricting the use of more than a dozen pesticide products following the deaths of an estimated 50,000 #bumblebees in the Portland area this month. The measure, effective immediately, will last for 180 days while the Oregon State Agricultural Department investigates incidents of a mass bee die-off in the Portland suburb of Wilsonville, and a much smaller die-off in neighboring Hillsboro. Learn more: organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27828.cfm #SaveTheBees #Neonicotinoids
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:25:06 +0000