Millions of Bees Dead After Government Approved ‘Silent’ Spraying of Insecticide [Video]

On August 29 Flowertown Bee Farm owners in Summerville, South Carolina woke up to a cruel, unwanted surprise — 2.5 million dead bees from 46 hives. These were the rescue hives that the owner, Nita Mae, acquired to help the dying bee population.

Insecticide Naled Caused Bee Population to Die

This time the bees were hit by what might one of the strongest and most dangerous chemicals being sprayed in our environment today: Naled, which is banned in the European Union, but is still used in the U.S. It is a highly toxic organophosphate, and it was sprayed from planes in order to eliminate mosquitoes that may have been carrying the Zika virus, officials said.

The next day the local government posted a notice on their site confirming that aerial spraying against mosquitoes took place that Sunday, August 28. They sent two announcements about it on August 26 and 27 to the mainstream media channels, and there was a Facebook post on Saturday. The local officials considered this to be a fair warning.

But according to a Change.org petition, the population was not told which chemical was going to be used or that it was going to be sprayed by planes (the local government site only mentioned spraying by trucks).

Many did not hear about any type of spraying being done until it was too late.
“Had I known, I would have been camping on the steps doing whatever I had to do screaming, ‘No you can’t do this,’” Flowerton Bee Farm co-owner Juanita Stanley told WCSC-TV.

Watch the devastating effect Naled had on the Flowertown Bee Farm below. The beekeepers say they did not know the spraying was taking place, and even let the kids play outside that day.

What is Naled?
“I was angry that day,” admits one beekeeper in a TV interview. “I couldn’t wrap my head around that we spray poison from the sky.”

Naled is an insecticide, which has been used since 1959 in the U.S., according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It previously has been used in 2004 in Florida after a hurricane emergency, in 2005 in Lousiana, Mississippi and Texas after Hurricane Katrina, and in 1987 in Puerto Rico when attempting to control dengue.

Article originally published in AltHealthwks.com republished with permission