2014
Bee project: Assessing the impact of neonicotinoid seed treatments on pollinators
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Biotic stressCrop protectionField management Pest
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Gus Lorenz III, University of Arkansas
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
University of Arkansas
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

This proposal requests support for mass spectrometric analyses to determine the concentration of neonicotinoid insecticides found in soil, soybean flowers, wild flowers around field perimeters, and in honey bees and pollen being collected by foraging bees to determine the potential exposure of insect pollinators to these insecticides. Additional sampling and analyses may be done in 2013 depending upon the results of analyses for samples collected in 2012.

Unique Keywords:
#insects and pests
Information And Results
Final Project Results

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