Fate of Neonicotinoids in the Environment: Why Bees Are Threatened
My uncle, now deceased, had honey bees. Farmers in a nearby county would get him to bring the hives to their fields to help pollinate the crops. Most were ‘truck’ farms ... not the big ag, monocrop ‘farms’. It was devastating to him when he would have a ‘hive collapse’ and he had that happen a couple of times.
The day before he went into the hospital (died a couple of days later), he had gotten a shipment of a couple of ‘queens’. He told my aunt he was too sick to do anything with them, but later in the day, he managed to take the queens to the hives (with my aunt’s help) ..... next day he was so sick he was in the hospital & died two days later - advanced lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain.