Greengage
04-11-2015, 09:13 AM
I came across this thesis by Julia Goss of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, In her study she looked at varroa, nosema, and virus levels in honeybees forageing on oilseed rape,some seed treated with clothianidin and some not as untreated controls. She looked at the parasite levels both before and after flowering of the crop, Her results showed that despite the confirmed exposure of the Test colonies to clothianidin at high levels there appears to be no differences in any of the parasite levels following exposure to the insecticide. Interesting read, if you leave out the pages in Swedish (I Think) and the acknowledgements it is only approx 30 pages to read very easy to read and follow.
http://stud.epsilon.slu.se/6985/1/goss_j_140707.pdf
http://stud.epsilon.slu.se/6985/1/goss_j_140707.pdf