Soil-applied imidacloprid translocates to ornamental flowers and reduces survival of adult coleomegilla maculata, harmonia axyridis, and hippodamia convergens lady beetles, and larval danaus plexippus and vanessa cardui butterflies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Krischik, Vera ^a   Rogers, Mary ^a   Gupta, Garima ^b   Varshney, Aruna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIDACLOPRID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NECTAR; NITRO DERIVATIVE; SOIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS; ASCLEPIAS CURASSAVICA; BEETLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BUTTERFLY; CHEMICAL PEST CONTROL; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; COLEOMEGILLA MACULATA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; GREENHOUSE; HARMONIA AXYRIDIS; HIPPODAMIA CONVERGENS; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; LARVAL STAGE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; ORNAMENTAL PLANT; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; SURVIVAL; URBAN AREA; VANESSA CARDUI; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; SOIL;

ACARI; ASCLEPIAS CURASSAVICA; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; COLEOMEGILLA MACULATA; COLEOPTERA; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; HARMONIA AXYRIDIS; HEXAPODA; HIPPODAMIA CONVERGENS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PAPILIONOIDEA; VANESSA CARDUI;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BUTTERFLIES; FLOWERS; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PLANT NECTAR; POLLEN; SOIL;

EID: 84925840574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119133     Document Type: Article

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