Claim · #6495196
imidacloprid · pest pressure · Andrena spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“neonicotinoids negatively associated with ground-nesting bee distributions”
- Authors
- Garibaldi L.A., et al.
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Nature Sustainability
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Imidacloprid harm to ground-nesting wild bees including Andrena spp. is documented in landscape-scale US studies (Woodcock et al. 2017; Main et al. 2020).”
- entomologist · plausible
“Andrena are soil-nesting solitary bees with documented sensitivity to systemic neonicotinoid soil residues; negative occupancy association is biologically coherent.”
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