Pesticide–Virus Interactions in Honey Bees: Challenges and Opportunities for Understanding Drivers of Bee Declines
Honey bees are key agricultural pollinators, but beekeepers continually suffer high annual colony losses owing to a number of environmental stressors, including inadequate nutrition, pressures from parasites and pathogens, and exposure to a wide variety of pesticides. In this review, we examine how...
Main Authors: | Gyan P. Harwood, Adam G. Dolezal |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-05-01
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Series: | Viruses |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/5/566 |
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