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Current Research

Current Research

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General
Optimizing Pest Management Practices to Conserve Pollinators in Turf Landscapes: 2017
*Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides and lack of flowers: 2015

Pollinators and Pesticides
Assessment of chronic sublethal effects of imidacloprid on honey bee colony health: 2016
Non-cultivated plants present a season-long route of pesticide exposure for honey bees: 2016
*Pollinator asssemblages on dandelions and white clover in urban and suburban lawns: 2014
Assessing insecticide hazard to bumble bees foraging on flowering weeds in treated lawns: 2013
Acaricide, fungicide and drug interactions in honey bees: 2013
*Neonicotinoid pesticide reduces bumble bee colony growth and queen production: 2012
*Effects of imidacloprid on reproduction in worker bumble bees: 2012

Pollinators and Parasites
Pesticide exposure in honey bees results in increased levels of the gut pathogen Nosema: 2012
Dead or Alive: Deformed wing virus and Varroa destructor reduce the life span of winter honeybees: 2011
*The acute bee paralysis virus: 2010

Cultural Methods
Mowing mitigates bioactivity of neonicotinoid insecticides in nectar of flowering lawn weeds and turfgrass guttation: 2014

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