Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08523-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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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.