Honey bee toxicology

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2015, Pages 415-434

  Johnson, Reed M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Fungicides; Insecticides; Interactions; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; BEE; DRUG EFFECTS;

ANIMALS; BEES; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 84920863677     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-011613-162005     Document Type: Review

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