Clothianidin seed-treatment has no detectable negative impact on honeybee colonies and their pathogens
There has been a lack of multi-year landscape-scale studies on the effect of neonicotinoids on honeybee health. Here, Osterman et al. show that clothianidin exposure via seed-treated rapeseed has no negative impact on honeybee colony development, microbial pathogens/symbionts or immune gene expressi...
Main Authors: | Julia Osterman, Dimitry Wintermantel, Barbara Locke, Ove Jonsson, Emilia Semberg, Piero Onorati, Eva Forsgren, Peter Rosenkranz, Thorsten Rahbek-Pedersen, Riccardo Bommarco, Henrik G. Smith, Maj Rundlöf, Joachim R. de Miranda |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-02-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08523-4 |
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