US beekeepers fear for livelihoods as anti-Zika toxin kills 2.5m bees

‘It kills everything’: conservationist warns over threat to other animals but regulators say ‘clear and public health crisis’ allows use of Naled chemical. Huddled around their hives, beekeepers around the south-eastern US fear a new threat to their livelihood: a fine mist beaded with neurotoxin, sprayed from the sky by officials at war with mosquitos that carry the Zika virus.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/04/zika-mosquito-neurotoxin-kills-bees-livelihoods-beekeepers?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco?source=Snapzu