Tasteless pesticides affect bees in the field

Nigel E. Raine () and Richard J. Gill ()
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Nigel E. Raine: Nigel E. Raine is in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
Richard J. Gill: Silwood Park, Imperial College London, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK.

Nature, 2015, vol. 521, issue 7550, 38-39

Abstract: Two studies provide evidence that bees cannot taste or avoid neonicotinoid pesticides, and that exposure to treated crops affects reproduction in solitary bees as well as bumblebee colony growth and reproduction. See Letters p.74 & p.77

Date: 2015
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