Quantifying Neonicotinoid Insecticide Residues Escaping during Maize Planting with Vacuum Planters

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 13003-13011

  Xue, Yingen ^a   Limay Rios, Victor ^a   Smith, Jocelyn ^a   Baute, Tracey ^b   Forero, Luis Gabriel ^a   Schaafsma, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; FILTRATION; HERBICIDES; SOILS;

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS; APPLICATION RATES; DISTURBED SOIL; EXHAUST EMISSION; NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES; NEONICOTINOIDS; RECOVERY RATE; SOIL SURFACES;

SEED;

ATRAZINE; CLOTHIANIDIN; THIAMETHOXAM; ANABASINE; INSECTICIDE; SOIL;

ATRAZINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXHAUST EMISSION; INSECTICIDE; INSTRUMENTATION; MAIZE; PLANT RESIDUE; POLLINATOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOVERY; SEED; SEED TREATMENT; SOIL SURFACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST AND DUST RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENERAL DEVICE; HONEYBEE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; SEED TREATMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SURFACE SOIL; VACUUM PLANTER; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ONTARIO; PLANT SEED; SOIL; VACUUM;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ZEA MAYS;

ANABASINE; ATRAZINE; INSECTICIDES; ONTARIO; SEEDS; SOIL; VACUUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84946772112     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03753     Document Type: Article

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