Half A Billion Bees Drop Dead In Brazil Amid Jump In Pesticide Use by Tyler Durden Mon, 08/19/2019 - 21:35 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-19/half-billion-bees-drop-dead-brazil-amid-jump-pesticide-use Most of the dead bees had traces of Fipronil, an insecticide classified by the European Union and the US Environmental Protection Agency as a human carcinogen.