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   (CNN)The pictures are heartbreaking: Millions of honeybees lie   
   dead after being sprayed with an insecticide targeting Zika-   
   carrying mosquitoes.   
      
   "On Saturday, it was total energy, millions of bees foraging,   
   pollinating, making honey for winter," beekeeper Juanita Stanley   
   said. "Today, it stinks of death. Maggots and other insects are   
   feeding on the honey and the baby bees who are still in the   
   hives. It's heartbreaking."   
      
   Stanley, co-owner of Flowertown Bee Farm and Supply in   
   Summerville, South Carolina, said she lost 46 beehives -- more   
   than 3 million bees -- in mere minutes after the spraying began   
   Sunday morning.   
      
   "Those that didn't die immediately were poisoned trying to drag   
   out the dead," Stanley said. "Now, I'm going to have to destroy   
   my hives, the honey, all my equipment. It's all contaminated."   
      
   Stanley said Summerville Fire Capt. Andrew Macke, who keeps bees   
   as a hobby, also lost thousands of bees. She said neither of   
   them had protected their hives because they didn't know about   
   the aerial spraying.   
      
   "Andrew has two hives," Stanley said. "He didn't know they were   
   going to spray. His wife called him. His bees are at their porch   
   right by their home, and she saw dead bees everywhere."   
      
   It's a tragedy that could be repeated across the country as   
   cases of Zika continue to rise and local mosquito control   
   districts struggle to protect their residents and ease local   
   fears.   
      
   The spray fell from the skies between 6:30 and 8:30 a.m. Sunday.   
   It was the first aerial spraying in 14 years, according to   
   Dorchester County Administrator Jason Ward, part of the county's   
   efforts to combat Zika after four local residents were diagnosed   
   with the virus.   
      
   "We chose Sunday morning because few people would be out and   
   about that early on a weekend," Ward said. "To protect the bees,   
   you don't want to spray after the sun has been up more two   
   hours, so we scheduled it early."   
      
   The county used a product called Trumpet, which contains the   
   pesticide naled, recommended by the Environmental Protection   
   Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for   
   control of adult Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits Zika.   
      
   According to the manufacturer's label (PDF), Trumpet is "highly   
   toxic to bees exposed to direct treatment on blooming crops or   
   weeds. To minimize hazard to bees, it is recommended that the   
   product is not applied more than two hours after sunrise or two   
   hours before sunset, limiting application to times when bees are   
   least active."   
      
   "We followed that recommendation," said Ward, "which is also the   
   policy laid out by the state, using a pesticide the state has   
   approved for use."   
      
   Ward says the county also notified residents of the spraying by   
   posting a notice on its website at 9 a.m. Friday, two days   
   before the spraying. He added that it alerted beekeepers who   
   were on the local mosquito control registry by phone or email, a   
   common practice before truck spraying.   
      
   "That's true when they sprayed by trucks; they told me in   
   advance, and we talked about it so I could protect my bees,"   
   Stanley said. "But nobody called me about the aerial spraying;   
   nobody told me at all."   
      
   Stanley said she "would have been screaming and pleading on   
   their doorstep if they had."   
      
   " 'Do it at night when bees are done foraging,' I would have   
   told them," she added, breaking into tears. "But they sprayed at   
   8 a.m. Sunday, and all of my bees were out, doing their work by   
   then."   
      
   Macke was also not informed, Ward said, because he, like many   
   hobby beekeepers, is not on the local mosquito control registry.   
      
   "We are obviously saddened by the fact people have lost their   
   hives, and we have gone back and looked at our procedures," Ward   
   said. "We will now give up to five days of advance notice, and   
   we have expanded our list to include more local beekeepers."   
      
   Stanley says she doesn't think there was malice involved, but   
   that doesn't make the loss of her "honey girls" any less painful.   
      
   "This wasn't about the honey," she said. "It was about raising   
   bees and selling them to other people, and spreading the honey   
   girls out there into the world. Now, I can't help anyone   
   anymore, because all of them are dead."   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/health/zika-spraying-honeybees/   
      
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