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Speaker 1: There was a little Halloween field here at the State

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Speaker 1: House with people dressed up as bumblebees to express their

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Speaker 1: support for a proposed bill that would restrict use of

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Speaker 1: a pesticide that kills bees. Among those here to testify

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Speaker 1: and supported the bill, as Joseph pappis, he's with Environment Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: Bees are dying around Massachusetts. We know that just this

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Speaker 2: past winter, our bee keepers saw one of the worst

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Speaker 2: pea die offs in recent years. Eighty two percent of

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Speaker 2: commercial beehives in Massachusetts died off this past year.

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Speaker 1: He points out that bees as pollinators are necessary for

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Speaker 1: the health of the environment and our food supply, but

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Speaker 1: they're in trouble, he says if these pesticides are not

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Speaker 1: phased out from the state House. Carl Stephen STEDBC Boston's

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Speaker 1: news radio