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Posted bygreeniein/news-Sep 02, 2016 at 5:00 PM

Aimed at Zika Mosquitoes, Spray Kills Millions of Honeybees

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Aimed at Zika Mosquitoes, Spray Kills Millions of Honeybees

The Monday morning scene at Juanita Stanley's apiary in Summerville, S.C., was ghastly and stunningly quiet: Everywhere one looked were clumps of honeybees, dead after a dousing on Sunday with the potent pesticide with which the local authorities had intended to kill mosquitoes.

nytimes.com
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  • Salaam4EveryoneSep 02, 2016 at 5:01 PM

    Gosh darn it, why does it feel like whenever we try to fix something we break something else?

    • greenieSep 02, 2016 at 5:04 PM

      As a friend of mine quoted on twitter:

      “[...] how easy it is to forget best practices when faced with emerging issues”

      • Salaam4EveryoneSep 02, 2016 at 5:11 PM

        I guess that's true.

        But I mean, our best innovations have had bad effects.

        Vaccination has led to the creation of unstoppable super-bugs. Cities have led to easier transmission of diseases and the causes of epidemics. Fire, arguably the most useful force in building civilizations, has resulted in a lot of death and destruction.

        But, all those things did do a lot of good and improved billions of lives. But was it worth it?

      • greenieSep 02, 2016 at 5:17 PM

        I thought using antibiotics everywhere is what led to the superbugs?

      • Salaam4EveryoneSep 02, 2016 at 5:20 PM

        Maybe it was that, I'm no scientist :P.

      • greenieSep 02, 2016 at 5:36 PM

        haha, okay :)

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