Did Home Depot board the Woo train?

Home Depot has announced that it is going to start requiring plant suppliers to label the plants that contain neonicotinoid pesticides on plants that they sell. This move is in response to honeybee decline/colony collapse. Other US companies are also going to require supplier to stop the use of neonics to help prevent the decline of honeybee populations.

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Home Depot and other U.S. companies are working to eliminate or limit use of a type of pesticide suspected of helping cause dramatic declines in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, officials said on Wednesday.

Monsanto and Bayer are stating that mites are a primary cause of colony collapse (the term used here in Hawaii).

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Scientists, consumer groups, beekeepers and others say bee deaths are linked to the neonic pesticides. But Monsanto,, Bayer and other agrichemical companies say a mix of factors such as mites are killing the bees.

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In fact here in Hawaii studies are now being conducted in ways to combat the varroa mite. Monsanto is also a big player here with their GE corn.

Just this week Sciencedaily reported that the UK is now studying the varroa mite and its link to colony collapse.

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DWV is one of the most common viruses infecting European honeybees. Although present in almost all colonies, high levels of deformed wing disease -- characterised by developmental deformities, reduced foraging ability and longevity -- are only common when Varroa is also present.

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So is Home Depot going to start playing soothing music to the plants next? Eleventy one?

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