“I just could not wrap my head around the fact that we spray poison from the sky.”

- Andrew Macke, Beekeeper, Dorchester County, SC

“If that much damage was caused to the bees,
how will this affect people, wildlife and the ecosystem?”

- Kristina Solara Litzenberger, Beekeeper, Summerville, SC

Dorchester County, SC officials apologized Tuesday,
August 30, 2016, for unintentionally killing millions of honeybees
when it failed to notify local beekeepers about its Naled mass
mosquito-spraying operation from planes last Sunday, August 28, 2016.
Summerville, SC, beekeeper Kristina Solara Litzenberger reports that all
of her 46 hives of 2.5 million honey bees have died. She asks,
“If that much damage was caused to the bees, how will this
affect people, wildlife and the ecosystem?”

On August 12, 2016, the Miami Herald reported: “Several studies suggest that long-term exposure to even low levels of Naled can have serious health effects for children and infants as well as wildlife, including butterflies and bees, for whom exposure can be lethal. Some studies suggest it might have neurological and developmental effects on human fetuses, including on brain size, echoing the severe consequences that eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the Zika virus is meant to prevent.” See protest against Naled.