Beekeepers call on state to suspend corn seed pesticides said to kill bees

A bee drags a dead bee from one of the hives owned by Steve Ellis in a photo taken Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Barrett, Minn. Ellis says thousands of his bees died soon after corn seed treated with neonicotinoid pesticide was planted in a nearby field.
MPR Photo/Dan Gunderson
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