Bee pesticide poisoning incidents in the United Kingdom

Bulletin of Insectology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 141-145

  Fletcher, Mark ^a   Barnett, Libby ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bees; Pesticides; Poisoning; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA;

EID: 24944474641     PISSN: 17218861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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