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Dec 28, 2013 12:40 PM CST
Name: Sheryl
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Don't quote me on this.... but it seems like the culprit for the bee demise is the nicotine based insecticides. Although they aren't often applied to actual blooms, they are systemic and if the plant blooms it is available to the pollinators.

This Wiki articles names the different brands and gives some more (and probably more accurate!) info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
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