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This can have a negative impact on human health and pollinator insect species, such as bees and butterflies.

A new study reveals alarming risks that pesticides pose to ground-nesting bees, which are crucial for pollination and food production.

On the morning the Mountain fire erupted, wind gusts were so strong in Somis that several of the sturdy wooden boxes that housed Eduardo Flores’s bee colonies had already blown over.

As explained by the AP, pistachio orchards “can be sustained with minimal water during drought” and their trees “rely on wind instead of bees for pollination and can produce nuts for decades longer.”

Though he strikes an imposing figure at 6-feet-5, Tony Todd admits he has a fear of bees and “anything that crawls.”