Neonicotinoid Residues in Wildflowers, a Potential Route of Chronic Exposure for Bees

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 12731-12740

  Botías, Cristina ^a   David, Arthur ^a   Horwood, Julia ^a   Abdul Sada, Alaa ^a   Nicholls, Elizabeth ^a   Hill, Elizabeth ^a   Goulson, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABLE FIELDS; CHRONIC EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; FIELD STUDIES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NEONICOTINOIDS; NEUROTOXIC INSECTICIDES; PLANTS GROWING;

CROPS;

NEONICOTINOID; ANABASINE; INSECTICIDE; NECTAR; SOIL;

ARABLE LAND; BEE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FLOWER; HONEYBEE; NECTAR; NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDE; POLLEN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WILD POPULATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARABLE LAND; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CROP; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLOWERING; FORAGING; HONEYBEE; LANDSCAPE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; POLLEN; POLLUTION; RAPESEED; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPRING; SUMMER; WASTE; WILD PLANT; WILDFLOWER; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BEE; BRASSICA RAPA; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; SOIL; WHEAT;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANABASINE; ANIMALS; BEES; BRASSICA RAPA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLOWERS; HORDEUM; INSECTICIDES; PLANT NECTAR; POLLEN; SEEDS; SOIL; TRITICUM;

EID: 84946811340     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03459     Document Type: Article

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