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research article

Effects of pesticides on bees: Laboratory and field tests study the effects of agricultural pesticides on highly important pollinators of state's crops

authors

L. D. Anderson, University of California
E. L. Atkins, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 12(12):3-4. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v012n12p3. December 1958.

author affiliations

L. D. Anderson is Entomologist, University of California, Riverside. E. L. Atkins, Jr., is Associate Specialist in Entomology, University of California, Riverside.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

Important losses to beekeepers—and to agriculture in general—have been caused by certain pesticides appearing on the market during the last few years.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1499.

More detailed articles by the same authors have been published in The Journal of Economic Entomology: 47(6): 469-72, 1954 and 51(1): 103-8, 1958.