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NATURE'S DYING MIGRANT WORKERS

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 8:11PM

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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