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Halloween Ghost Bees

Randall Cass and Ashley St Clair of the IPM4Bees group shot some varroa mite management videos and from those videos this Halloween special was created! Happy Hallowbees!

Randall P Cass

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Extension Entomologist, Honey Bees and Native Bees
Area of Expertise: 
Honey bees, Native bees, and Pollinators

Insecticidal Seed Treatments can Harm Honey Bees

April 6, 2012
Researcher next to bee deeps

Bees are susceptible to many broad spectrum insecticides, but how are they getting exposed to a chemistry largely used for seed treatments? Christian Krupke, a field crops entomologist at Purdue University, and several others took a closer look at how honey bees might be interacting with neonicotinoids. Common examples of neonicotinoids include: clothianidin (Poncho r), thiamethoxam (Cruiser r), and imidacloprid (Gaucho r).