Underlying reasons of the controversy over adverse effects of Bt toxins on lady beetle and lacewing larvae

Environmental Sciences Europe

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Hilbeck, Angelika ^a   Meier, Matthias ^b   Trtikova, Miluse ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIA BIPUNCTATA; CHRYSOPERLA CARNEA; CHRYSOPIDAE; COLEOPTERA; COCCINELLIDAE;

BEETLE; BIOPESTICIDE; DATA SET; LARVA; POLLUTION EFFECT; RISK FACTOR; TOXIN;

EID: 84864042056     PISSN: 21904707     EISSN: 21904715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2190-4715-24-9     Document Type: Review

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