Non-cultivated plants present a season-long route of pesticide exposure for honey bees

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Long, Elizabeth Y ^a   Krupke, Christian H ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; ACETAMIPRID; ACETOCHLOR; ATRAZINE; CARBAMIC ACID; CARBARIL; CHLORIMURON ETHYL; CLOTHIANIDIN; COUMAFOS; CYHALOTHRIN; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; DIFENOCONAZOLE; DIMETHOATE; DIMPYLATE; DINOTEFURAN; FLUVALINATE; IMIDACLOPRID; METALAXYL; METHOMYL; METOLACHLOR; NEONICOTINOID; PHENOTHRIN; PRALLETHRIN; PROPICONAZOLE; PYRETHROID; SPINOSAD; TETRAMETHRIN; THIACLOPRID; THIAMETHOXAM; TRIFLOXYSTROBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSECTICIDE;

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; INSECTICIDE; MAIZE; MOSQUITO; NEONICOTINOID PESTICIDE; PEST SPECIES; POLLEN; POLLINATOR; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; PYRETHROID PESTICIDE; SOYBEAN;

ALFALFA; AMBROSIA ARTEMISIIFOLIA; ARTICLE; CLOVER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORAGER; FORAGING; GROWING SEASON; HONEYBEE; LANDSCAPE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; POLLINATOR; SOYBEAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUMMER; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SEASON; TOXICITY;

APIS MELLIFERA; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSECTICIDES; NEONICOTINOIDS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PYRETHRINS; SEASONS; SOYBEANS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84973402544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11629     Document Type: Article

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