Neonicotinoids impact bumblebee colony fitness in the field; a reanalysis of the UK’s Food & Environment Research Agency 2012 experiment

The causes of bee declines remain hotly debated, particularly the contribution of neonicotinoid insecticides. In 2013 the UK’s Food & Environment Research Agency made public a study of the impacts of exposure of bumblebee colonies to neonicotinoids. The study concluded that there was no clear re...

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Main Author: Dave Goulson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2015-03-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/854.pdf