Talk about the birds and the bees might soon just be talk with no bees. Honey bees have been for some time mysteriously dying off without any reasonable notion yet as far as we know why.
This was before the Zika hysteria. Now is after. In their hysteria and zealousness public healthcare officials are spraying insecticide without warning. At least that's what happened here.
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — There's been some collateral damage in the fight against Zika - millions of honeybees in South Carolina.
News outlets report that Dorchester County officials have apologized for killing the bees when the county failed to notify local beekeepers about mosquito spraying last weekend.
Four travel-related cases of the Zika virus have been confirmed in the county northwest of Charleston. Aerial mosquito spraying operations were conducted Sunday morning.
Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply in Summerville lost more than two million bees,. Company co-owner Juanita Stanley says the farm "looks like it's been nuked." Andrew Macke, a hobby beekeeper, says he lost thousands of bees.
The county usually notifies beekeepers before it sprays for mosquitoes. Officials say Sunday was the first time spraying had been done from the air.
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Spraying from the air is even more dangerous, but oh well.......we have to protect you from this dreaded killer that has probably done in world wide one-tenth of one-quarter of one-half of those reportedly killed by healthcare workers in this country last year.
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