Claim · #6495198
pyrethroid (class) · pest pressure · Bombus spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“pyrethroids negatively associated with bee distributions”
- Authors
- Garibaldi L.A., et al.
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Nature Sustainability
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Pyrethroids are broad-spectrum contact insecticides with established negative effects on Bombus foraging populations at landscape scale (Botias 2017).”
- entomologist · plausible
“Pyrethroid contact toxicity to bumble bees is well-established; landscape-scale occupancy declines are biologically and toxicologically coherent.”
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