| effects of thiamethoxam-treated seed on mexican bean beetle (coleoptera: coccinellidae), nontarget arthropods, and crop performance in southwestern virginia snap beans. | thiamethoxam is a neonicotinoid insecticide commonly applied directly to the seeds (seed-treatment) of commercial snap beans, phaseolus vulgaris l. while previous studies have examined target and nontarget effects of thiamethoxam seed-treatments in snap beans and other crops, to our knowledge, none have been conducted in agroecosystems predominated by the pest mexican bean beetle, epilachna varivestis mulsant (coleoptera: coccinellidae). this study examined the effects of thiamethoxam-treated sn ... | 2017 | 29069307 |