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Neonicotinoid pesticides severely affect honey bee queens

Queen health is crucial to colony survival of social bees. Recently, queen failure has been proposed to be a major driver of managed honey bee colony losses, yet few data exist concerning effects of environmental stressors on queens. Here we demonstrate for the first time that exposure to field-real...

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Autores principales: Williams, Geoffrey R., Troxler, Aline, Retschnig, Gina, Roth, Kaspar, Yañez, Orlando, Shutler, Dave, Neumann, Peter, Gauthier, Laurent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26459072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14621