Here's a clipping from the press release:

"When the six weeks were up, the researchers found that colonies exposed to low and high doses of imidacloprid were 8% and 12% smaller, respectively, than colonies that hadn't been treated with pesticide whatsoever. But the real shock came when the researchers realized that the treated colonies had produced 85% fewer queen bees than the untreated groups. In other words, for every ten queen bees an untreated colony produced, an imidacloprid-treated colony would produce just one or two."

How many queens did they expect?  Were they using honeybees or some other species?

Chris

 

 

 



 

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