Swedish research published in 2015—two years after the EU imposed a moratorium on the use of three popular neonicotinoids, clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam—found that wild bees in ...

The neonicotinoid family includes specific pesticides such as acetamaprid, imidacloprid, dinotefuran, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam. They gained popularity in agricultural and commercial ...

These were designed to investigate how exposure to the neonicotinoid imidacloprid affected larval survival, sexual development, locomotor skills, and avoidance behavior of the wood frog (Rana ...

Health Canada is proposing a ban on almost all uses of a controversial neonicotinoid pesticide called imidacloprid, saying it is seeping into Canadian waterways at levels that can harm insects and ...

And as the use of imidacloprid and other neonicotinoids has grown over the years, the fish have never recovered. These findings, from a paper published in Science in early November, are the first ...

Dutch researchers have found a correlation between bird population declines in the Netherlands and higher concentrations of the common neonicotinoid pesticide imidacloprid in surface water.

He gave captive deer water spiked with imidacloprid, the most commonly used neonicotinoid, and measured its presence in various organs. Deer with higher levels in their spleens had pronounced ...

Reportedly, this is the first study to show that imidacloprid (neonicotinoid) and chlorpyrifos (organophosphate) — which are two of the most widely-used insecticides — are toxic to seed-eating ...

Imidacloprid, meanwhile, is a type of neonicotinoid – a class of substances chemically similar to nicotine and used as insecticides. Imidacloprid and other neonicotinoids are known to be ...

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