Honey bees : estimating the environmental impact of chemicals / edited by James Devillers and Minh-Hà Pham-Delègue.
An up-to-date account of the different strategies for assessing the ecotoxicity of xenobiotics against honey bees. Information on the effects on these insects by a range of toxicants is also presented.
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 The ecological importance of honey bees and their relevance to ecotoxicology; 2 Volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in beehive atmospheres; 3 Risk assessment of plant protection products on honey bees; 4 Acute toxicity of pesticides to honey bees; 5 The proboscis extension response; 6 Effects of imidacloprid on the neural processes of memory in honey bees; 7 Impact of agrochemicals on non-Apis bees; 8 Honey bees as indicators of radionuclide contamination.