Ontario Beekeeper Wants to Know Why 1.2 Million of Her Bees Suddenly Died

A Sudbury-based beekeeper is asking questions after more than a million of her bees died suddenly. Dawn Lalonde of Mikkola Family Farm & Apiary in Lively, Ontario, said her bee colonies have been in the same place for seven years, and she had been hoping to raise enough money to move to a new property and expand. After 1.2 million of her bees died on June 14, she doesn’t know how she’ll go on. “I knew right away something wasn’t right,” she told The Epoch Times in a phone interview. She had visited her colonies to check on them but found the scene “apocalyptically eerie.”...