50,000 Bees killed by pesticide Safari in parking lot

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The Oregon Department of Agriculture confirmed the insecticide Safari caused the deaths of approximately 50,000 bees in Wilsonville, OR, earlier this week. A landscaping company sprayed 55 linden trees in a Target parking lot to control for aphids, said Dan Hilburn, the plants division director at the department of agriculture. They bees have been dropping from trees since the spraying.

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