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    <h1 class="trb_ar_hl_t" itemprop="headline">Bee-harming pesticides

      are declining at plant nurseries, report shows </h1>

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bees-pesticides-20160816-snap-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bees-pesticides-20160816-snap-story.html</a><br>

    “Our data indicates that compared to two years ago, fewer nurseries

    and garden stores are selling plants pre-treated with systemic

    neonicotinoid insecticides,” said Susan Kegley, a chemist at the

    Pesticide Research Institute and lead author of the report released

    Tuesday by the institute and Friends of the Earth.<br>

    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 

Dr. David W. Inouye

Professor Emeritus

Department of Biology

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742-4415

<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:inouye@umd.edu">inouye@umd.edu</a>


Principal Investigator

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

PO Box 519

Crested Butte, CO 81224</pre>

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