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Battle for our hearts and minds

Bees are dying due to insecticides, parasites and changes in farming, and that threatens nation's fruit and vegetable crops.

By Josephine Marcotty

January 15, 2015 at 8:12PM

about the writer

Josephine Marcotty

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Josephine Marcotty has covered the environment in Minnesota for eight years, with expertise in water quality, agriculture, critters and mining. Prior to that she was a medical reporter, with an emphasis on mental illness, transplant medicine and reproductive health care.

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