1. It appears that pesticides (even miniscule amounts of pesticides) will make bees become "picky". The bees will eschew perfectly normal/good food, eating only very sweet nectar. This goes as well as you'd expect: bees begin to starve like a rich guy in a zombie apocalypse refusing to eat canned beans.
This will be his fate.
In addition, the pesticides affected the bee's ability to communicate, causing them to become less likely to perform their waggle dance. This makes sense, as a waggle dance is meant to recruit other bees to "good" food. Something in the pesticides makes the bees think that less food is "good" enough.
2. Well, that's certainly an unexpected way we're killing animals.
I've recently started watching Doctor Who, and just got to the episode where the Doctor finds out that one of his "world-saving" actions was actually devastating.
I'm feeling a little bit of that.
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