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Low doses of neonicotinoid pesticides in food rewards impair short-term olfactory memory in foraging-age honeybees

Neonicotinoids are often applied as systemic seed treatments to crops and have reported negative impact on pollinators when they appear in floral nectar and pollen. Recently, we found that bees in a two-choice assay prefer to consume solutions containing field-relevant doses of the neonicotinoid pes...

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Autores principales: Wright, Geraldine A., Softley, Samantha, Earnshaw, Helen
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/PMC4609922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26477973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15322