Pesticides and reduced-risk insecticides, native bees and pantropical stingless bees: Pitfalls and perspectives

Pest Management Science

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1049-1053

  Barbosa, Wagner F ^a,b   Smagghe, Guy ^b   Guedes, Raul Narciso C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bioinsecticides; Biorational insecticides; Insecticidal stress; Meliponini; Wild pollinators

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; MELIPONINAE;

INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BEE; DRUG EFFECTS; POLLINATION; RISK;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; INSECTICIDES; PESTICIDES; POLLINATION; RISK;

EID: 84936168694     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.4025     Document Type: Note

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