Posts Tagged: insecticide use

Newly Published UC Davis Study: How Imidacloprid Affects Blue Orchard Bees

The systemic insecticide imidacloprid, belonging to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids or "neonics," is commonly used to...

A blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria, heads for a lacy phacelia, Phacelia tanacetifolia, at UC Davis. (Photo by Clara Stuligross)

A blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria, heads for a lacy phacelia, Phacelia tanacetifolia, at UC Davis. (Photo by Clara Stuligross)

Co-author of the PNAS paper is pollination ecologist Neal Williams, professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Co-author of the PNAS paper is pollination ecologist Neal Williams, professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Why Circadian Timing Is Everything

(Editor's Note: Joanna Chiu will be featured on Capital Public Radio's "Insight with Beth Ruyak" from 9 to 10 a.m., Tuesday, March 7. See...

This is a fruit fly, the spotted wing drosophia (Drosophila suzukii), that molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu of UC Davis is studying in her lab in Storer Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is a fruit fly, the spotted wing drosophia (Drosophila suzukii), that molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu of UC Davis is studying in her lab in Storer Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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