Modelling long-term effects of IGRs on honey bee colonies

Pest Management Science

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1081-1084

  Thompson, Helen M ^a   Wilkins, Selwyn ^a   Battersby, Alastair H ^a   Waite, Ruth J ^a   Wilkinson, David ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Honey bees; IGR; Long term; Productivity

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; PESTICIDE;

COLONY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH REGULATOR; HONEYBEE; MODELING; MONITORING; MORTALITY; PESTICIDE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JUVENILE HORMONES; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; PESTICIDES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 35648962464     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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