Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England

  • Ben A. Woodcock,
  • Nicholas J. B. Isaac,
  • James M. Bullock,
  • David B. Roy,
  • David G. Garthwaite,
  • Andrew Crowe,
  • Richard F. Pywell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12459
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Neonicotinoid as insecticide on oilseed rape can reduce bee colony density, but its effect at a large geographical scale is unclear. This study describes 18-year long wild bee tracking data in England and show neonicotinoid use is correlated with wild bee population declines at real landscape scales.