Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees

Nature

Volumn 521, Issue 7550, 2015, Pages 77-80

  Rundlöf, Maj ^a   Andersson, Georg K S ^a   Bommarco, Riccardo ^b   Fries, Ingemar ^b   Hederström, Veronica ^a   Herbertsson, Lina ^a   Jonsson, Ove ^b   Klatt, Björn K ^a   Pedersen, Thorsten R ^c   Yourstone, Johanna ^a   Smith, Henrik G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Board of Agriculture   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOTHIANIDIN; CYFLUTHRIN; NEONICOTINOID; ((E)-1-(2-CHLORO-1,3-THIAZOL-5-YLMETHYL)-3-METHYL-2-NITROGUANIDINE); GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NECTAR; NITRILE; PYRETHROID; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COATING; INSECTICIDE; POLLINATION; POPULATION DECLINE; WILD POPULATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BEE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BUMBLEBEE; CHEMICAL PEST CONTROL; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; HONEYBEE; MALE; NECTAR; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED; REPRODUCTION; ANIMAL; BRASSICA RAPA; CHEMISTRY; CROP; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SWEDEN; WILD ANIMAL;

EUROPE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BRASSICA NAPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEES; BRASSICA RAPA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FEMALE; GUANIDINES; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NITRILES; PLANT NECTAR; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PYRETHRINS; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SWEDEN; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84929103906     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14420     Document Type: Article

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