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Pesticides kill 50,000 bumble bees in Wilsonville, OR

6/21/2013

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Scientists investigating the mass death of bumble bees in Wilsonville, Oregon say that pesticides are the most likely cause. “To our knowledge, this incident is the largest mass poisoning of bumble bees ever documented,” said Mace Vaughan, Pollinator Conservation Director for the Xerces Society. Rich Hatfield, a biologist with Xerces, estimates that over 50,000 bumble bees were killed, likely representing more than 300 wild colonies. “Each of those colonies could have produced multiple new queens that would have gone on to establish new colonies next year. This makes the event particularly catastrophic.”
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    RESOURCES

    websites

    Beyond Pesticides
    Bumblebee Conservation Trust
    Metro's Natural Gardening
    Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
    Organic Consumers Association bee page
    Pesticide Action Network
    Portland Urban Beekeepers
    Xerces Society bee page

    films

    More than Honey
    Queen of the Sun
    Vanishing of the Bees

    books

    Attracting Native Pollinators
    Pollinator Conservation Handbook

    more

    Pacific Northwest Pollinator Plant List for Native Bees
    Maritime Northwest Pollinator Plant List
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