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>> i guess the question becomes, if you live in kansas or nebraska, is what you do possible there, feasible there or is it not, just because the bees are surrounded by monoculture, they're surrounded by pesticides, where here it's a very different thing. it's good country living out here. >> it is. i think it's obviously not one or the other. we're almost to the point with 200 hives that we can take some small pollination contracts and divide it up. that's what makes america so strong, the smaller patch work, small farms and small beekeep beekeepers. when things get so big, the economics can r...

Beekeepers, ken warcall and dick callahan. in the experiment, the team replicated the perfect environment for honey bees to thrive with proper nutrition and free uncontaminated space to roam and forage. in the summer, they released the pesticide and by winter found they had created colony collapse with use of the pesticides alone. teams used sublethal or an amount deemed too low to kill a honey bee right away. >> based on the data that we have on the previous two study. we are almost 100% sure that sublethal neonicotinoid is responsible to honeybee colony collapse disorder. >> it's one of the ...