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SUBMITTER: Henry M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685821 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henry Mickaël M Cerrutti Nicolas N Aupinel Pierrick P Decourtye Axel A Gayrard Mélanie M Odoux Jean-François JF Pissard Aurélien A Rüger Charlotte C Bretagnolle Vincent V
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20151101 1819
European governments have banned the use of three common neonicotinoid pesticides due to insufficiently identified risks to bees. This policy decision is controversial given the absence of clear consistency between toxicity assessments of those substances in the laboratory and in the field. Although laboratory trials report deleterious effects in honeybees at trace levels, field surveys reveal no decrease in the performance of honeybee colonies in the vicinity of treated fields. Here we provide ...[more]