Honeybee colony disorder in crop areas: The role of pesticides and viruses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Simon Delso, Noa ^a,b   Martin, Gilles San ^c   Bruneau, Etienne ^a   Minsart, Laure Anne ^a   Mouret, Coralie ^a   Hautier, Louis ^c  

^a Beekeeping Research and Information Centre   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WALLOON AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BLACK QUEEN CELL VIRUS; CHRONIC BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; COLONY COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; DICISTROVIRIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HONEYBEE; HONEYBEE COLONY DISORDER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT VIRUS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUEEN (INSECT); SAC BROOD VIRUS; VIRUS CONCENTRATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; BEE; BELGIUM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CROP; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; BELGIUM; COLONY COLLAPSE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; INSECT VIRUSES; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84904693791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103073     Document Type: Article

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