Zika spraying kills millions of honeybees

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This is incredibly sad. Why they wouldn't go out of their way to see to it that people's livlihood was protected is beyond me. And the bees... The poor little bees. They are crucial to the ecological balance of so many crops. Does the pesticide cause harm to any other species? This sucks.

Well, the honey bees are an invasive/domesticated species that goes feral a lot, so the above is a bit like worrying about a bunch of pigs getting killed including "wild" boars.

I'd be more worried about the many other pollinators including all sorts of different bees getting zapped; on the other hand, it would really suck to wake up some day to discover Zika is a lot more damaging than we thought, and that's a distinct possibility.

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