Not to mention the wholesale napalming of entire cities for mosquitoes when West Nile Virus scares crop up. I have never seen such knee jerking in all my life. And I chalk it up to the suffocating culture of political correctness.
There are two errors in the first sentence of this article. Two of the 4 chemicals are NOT used on crops, but are placed in the hives by beekeepers to control mites that parasitize the bees. Mites are NOT insects, they are arachnids (related to ticks).