Clothianidin seed-treatment has no detectable negative impact on honeybee colonies and their pathogens

oleh: 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

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-02-01

Deskripsi

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 expression.