Spokane City Council aims to protect honeybees

by Mike Prager
The Spokesman-Review

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The same Spokane City Council that legalized the raising of small farm animals in March is now taking aim at protecting honeybees.

Council President Ben Stuckart has introduced an ordinance that would ban city purchase and use of a relatively new class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. Research is showing that those chemicals, sold as a series of products, may be harmful to honeybees.

Stuckart said he wants the city to stop using the chemicals on its properties.

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