Field Tests Show Sustained Neonicotinoid Exposure Negatively Affects Bees (7 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Field Tests Show Sustained Neonicotinoid Exposure Negatively Affects Bees (7 of 9)

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Bombus rufocinctus, the red-belted bumblebee, covered in pollen while visiting a chive flower in Ottawa, Canada. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 30, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.T. Kerr at University of Ottawa in Ottawa, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, 'A cocktail of toxins.'

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Jeremy T. Kerr

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