| evidence for pollinator cost and farming benefits of neonicotinoid seed coatings on oilseed rape. | chronic exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides has been linked to reduced survival of pollinating insects at both the individual and colony level, but so far only experimentally. analyses of large-scale datasets to investigate the real-world links between the use of neonicotinoids and pollinator mortality are lacking. moreover, the impacts of neonicotinoid seed coatings in reducing subsequent applications of foliar insecticide sprays and increasing crop yield are not known, despite the supposed ... | 2015 | 26270806 |