Potential exposure of pollinators to neonicotinoid insecticides from the use of insecticide seed treatments in the mid-southern United States

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 9762-9769

  Stewart, Scott D ^a   Lorenz, Gus M ^b   Catchot, Angus L ^c   Gore, Jeff ^c   Cook, Don ^c   Skinner, John ^a   Mueller, Thomas C ^a   Johnson, Donald R ^b   Zawislak, Jon ^b   Barber, Jonathan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Marketing Services Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON; FOOD PRODUCTS; SEED; TRACE ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; DETECTION LEVELS; EARLY-FLOWERING; NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES; POTENTIAL EXPOSURE; PRODUCTION FIELDS; TRACE DETECTION;

INSECTICIDES;

CLOTHIANIDIN; IMIDACLOPRID; NEONICOTINOID; THIAMETHOXAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ((E)-1-(2-CHLORO-1,3-THIAZOL-5-YLMETHYL)-3-METHYL-2-NITROGUANIDINE); GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NECTAR; NITRO DERIVATIVE; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; SOIL POLLUTANT; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; COTTON; HONEYBEE; MAIZE; NEONICOTINOID; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEED TREATMENT; SOYBEAN;

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; CROP PRODUCTION; EXPOSURE; FORAGER; HONEYBEE; MAIZE; MORTALITY; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; POLLINATOR; SAMPLING; SEED TREATMENT; SOYBEAN; UNITED STATES; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOWER; GOSSYPIUM; PLANT SEED; POLLINATION; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ARKANSAS; MISSISSIPPI; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARKANSAS; BEES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOWERS; GOSSYPIUM; GUANIDINES; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; MISSISSIPPI; NITRO COMPOUNDS; OXAZINES; PLANT NECTAR; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SEEDS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOYBEANS; TENNESSEE; THIAZOLES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84906255212     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501657w     Document Type: Article

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