Study shows exposure to neonicotinoid pesticide impairs bumblebee pollination services
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 09:40
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Reading, both in the U.K., has found via field study that one type of pesticide exposure led to impaired pollination services by bumblebees. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes their study of the impact of the pesticide thiamethoxam on bumblebee pollination of apple trees, what their results showed and the types of pollination service disruptions they observed.