Assessing Insecticide Hazard to Bumble Bees Foraging on Flowering Weeds in Treated Lawns

Jonathan L. Larson; Carl T. Redmond; Daniel A. Potter

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066375

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Assessing Insecticide Hazard to Bumble Bees Foraging on Flowering Weeds in Treated Lawns

Jonathan L. Larson,

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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Carl T. Redmond,

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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Daniel A. Potter

* E-mail: dapotter@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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Assessing Insecticide Hazard to Bumble Bees Foraging on Flowering Weeds in Treated Lawns

Jonathan L. Larson,
Carl T. Redmond,
Daniel A. Potter

Published: June 12, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066375

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