Bees in Ontario have been dying in record numbers, close to 60 per cent last winter alone.

Honey bees in Ontario are dying in record numbers and the provincial government says a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids is partly to blame.

With a recent study supporting the widely held believe that neonicotinoid pesticides are killing bees, there are some beekeepers who are surprisingly not calling for an all-out ban of the pesticides.