Presence of the a.i. imidacloprid on vegetation near corn fields sown with Gaucho® dressed seeds

Bulletin of Insectology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-103

  Greatti, Moreno ^a   Barbattini, Renzo ^a   Stravisi, Antonella ^a   Sabatini, Anna Gloria ^b   Rossi, Simona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b Istituto Nazionale di Apicoltura   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corn sowing; Gaucho pollution; Honeybees; Imidacloprid; Pneumatic seed drills

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77749279161     PISSN: 17218861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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