Millions of honeybees in South Carolina were killed earlier this week after being sprayed with an aerial insecticide used to kill mosquitoes that are known to carry Zika.
Juanita Stanley, co-owner of Flowerton Bee Farm & Supplies in Summerville, South Carolina, said she knew something was wrong on Monday morning when she went to check on her bees and heard nothing.
“I have millions of bees, and usually you can hear the buzzing and feel the energy, but it was silent,” she said. “It was just devastation; there were piles of dead bees.”
Stanley said bees in all 46 of her hives were killed, resulting in the loss of millions of bees and her livelihood.
Stanley and other beekeepers in Dorchester County, South Carolina, are reeling after the county aerially sprayed naled, a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes since 1959, from a plane on Sunday morning.
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No more results found. Juanita Stanley, co-owner of Flowerton Bee Farm & Supplies in Summerville, South Carolina, said she knew something was wrong on Monday morning when she went to check on her bees and heard nothing.
“I have millions of bees, and usually you can hear the buzzing and feel the energy, but it was silent,” she said. “It was just devastation; there were piles of dead bees.”
Stanley said bees in all 46 of her hives were killed, resulting in the loss of millions of bees and her livelihood.
Stanley and other beekeepers in Dorchester County, South Carolina, are reeling after the county aerially sprayed naled, a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes since 1959, from a plane on Sunday morning.
For the full story, on USA Today, click here.