30-07-2016In the 1950s the commission on food coloring of the German Research Society (DFG), headed by the biochemist Adolf Butenandt…
29-07-2016Neonicotinoids, a widely used group of pesticides designed to selectively bind to insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, were considered relatively safe…
29-07-2016Twenty-two honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies were placed in four different cornfield areas in order to study the potential in situ…
29-07-2016Using neonicotinoid insecticides as seed treatments is a common practice in field crop production. Exposure of nontarget organisms to neonicotinoids…
29-07-2016The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides in recent years has led to increasing environmental concern, including impacts to avian populations.…
28-07-2016Pregnant women living within one kilometer (0.62 miles) of fields where certain pesticides are applied have children who show a…
27-07-2016Approximately 95 % of nearly 4 million acres of wetlands located in Iowa’s portion of the Prairie Pothole Region (Des…
27-07-2016Occurrence and removal of six high-production high-volume neonicotinoids was investigated in 13 conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and one engineered…
27-07-2016Structural and functional responses of a benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage to pulses of the insecticide imidacloprid were assessed in outdoor stream…
27-07-2016Everyone knows not to eat yellow snow. But what about the seemingly harmless, white fluffy stuff? According to research by…
