The first prohibits labeling plants as beneficial to pollinators - such as bees, ants and bats - if those plants have been treated with and have a detectable level of pesticide that is lethal to pollinators. Mark Dayton and legislators enacted two laws this spring unique among the 50 states. In an effort to strengthen bee populations and the humans who tend them, Minnesota Gov. Other causes include diseases, parasites and the lack of flowering plants that provide nutrition for bees, she said. That’s part of it, said Marla Spivak, an expert on beekeeping and social insects and professor of entomology at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. “Years ago, there were more wild honeybees and bumblebees,” Hochstetler told me early Monday morning, his 16-year-old son, Christian, assembling a mechanical double-blade sickle hay mower from Germany by our feet. Department of Agriculture survey of beekeepers released last month. Though this year showed some improvement, with only a 23-percent die-off, according to U.S.
beekeeper’s bees die each winter doesn’t help. That about 30 percent of Hochstetler’s and every U.S.
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