More than 25,000 bumblebees fall from Oregon sky due to insecticide poisoning

01/07/2013 09:48

Saturday, June 29, 2013 by: Jonathan Benson
(NaturalNews) Shoppers at a local Target store in Wilsonville, Oregon, just outside of Portland were shocked recently to step outside the big box depot into a sea of already dead and dying bumblebees. As reported by KATU.com news, more than 25,000 dead bumblebees were found littered around the store's parking lot during National Pollinator Week, a direct result of European Linden trees located in planters throughout the same parking lot having been sprayed with a highly toxic insecticide known as Safari. [Read more] ...