Claim · #6495195
thiamethoxam · pest pressure · Bombus spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“thiamethoxam negatively associated with bee distributions”
- Authors
- Garibaldi L.A., et al.
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Nature Sustainability
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Thiamethoxam negative association with bee distributions matches landscape-scale neonicotinoid-pollinator studies (Main 2020, Woodcock 2017).”
- entomologist · plausible
“Thiamethoxam (metabolizes to clothianidin) harms bumble bees in field studies; occupancy decline plausible.”
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