There seems to be more and more data to support the damages of low level toxicity on the developing brood. This is suspected to be one of the causes of the weakened immune systems and increased virus loads in the adult bees.
All the information I have found says that only studies that pertain to the direct mortality of the bees have been done. Even then, the sample sizes have been small and the conditions of the studies have been sloppy.
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