Claim · #6495201
clothianidin · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“clothianidin corn seed treatments associated with reduced bee distributions”
- Authors
- Garibaldi L.A., et al.
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Nature Sustainability
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Clothianidin corn seed treatments and dust-off during planting are documented bee-kill drivers; landscape-scale occupancy declines well-supported (Krupke 2012, Tsvetkov 2017).”
- entomologist · plausible
“Clothianidin planter dust is a recognized acute bee mortality pathway; negative association with bee occupancy near corn acreage is biologically grounded.”
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