Title: Pesticides linked to bee deaths must be banned, scientists say | CBC News
Headings: Pesticides linked to bee deaths must be banned, scientists say
Pesticides linked to bee deaths must be banned, scientists say
Neonicotinoids, fipronil linked to ecosystem damage in new report
Bee-killing pesticide
'Life would be awful' without bees
Beekeeper loses 65 million bees
90% goes into environment, not crop
DDT-like threat

Content: and owns Saugeen Country Honey, a family beekeeping business that started in 2007. David Schuit, owner of Saugeen Country Honey near Hannover, Ont., says he has lost more than 65 million bees over two years. ( Saugeen Country Honey/Facebook)
Since 2012, the family has lost more than 65 million bees, said Schuit. He estimates he now owns about 2,000 and attributes the monumental decline to the liberal use of neonicotinoids on nearby farms. Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency tested the soil on his property for traces of neonicotinoids, he said. In some soil outside the honey house, he said the agency found traces of the pesticide. "This is no joke. This is reality," he told CBC News. " We need neonicotinoids banned now"
The pesticide exposure impacts a bee's memory, he said, and they struggle to do simple tasks, like find the hive entrance.