Large-scale deployment of seed treatments has driven rapid increase in use of neonicotinoid insecticides and preemptive pest management in U.S. Field crops

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5088-5097

  Douglas, Margaret R ^a   Tooker, John F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES; NEONICOTINOIDS; NON-TARGET EFFECTS; PEST MANAGEMENT; PEST RESISTANCE; SEED TREATMENT;

CROPS;

NEONICOTINOID; INSECTICIDE;

DATA SET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MAIZE; NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDE; PEST CONTROL; PEST RESISTANCE; POPULATION DECLINE; SEED TREATMENT; SOYBEAN; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; CROP PEST; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PEST MANAGEMENT; PEST RESISTANCE; SEED TREATMENT; SOYBEAN; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE; AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; PEST CONTROL; PLANT SEED; PROCEDURES;

UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; INSECTICIDES; PEST CONTROL; SEEDS; SOYBEANS; UNITED STATES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84928384918     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es506141g     Document Type: Article

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