From seeds to plasma: Confirmed exposure of multiple farmland bird species to clothianidin during sowing of winter cereals

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 723; p. 138056
• Main Authors: Lennon, Rosie J., Peach, Will J., Dunn, Jenny C., Shore, Richard F., Pereira, M. Glória, Sleep, Darren, Dodd, Steve, Wheatley, Christopher J., Arnold, Kathryn E., Brown, Colin D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 25.06.2020
• Subjects: agricultural land; agricultural policy; Agriculture; application rate; blood sampling; cameras; Clothianidin; Ecological monitoring; farms; grains; Insecticide; liquid chromatography; risk assessment; seed treatment; seedlings; seeds; soil; sowing; Sub-lethal effects; Systemic; tandem mass spectrometry; wild birds; winter; Ecological monitoring; Agriculture; Systemic; Insecticide; Clothianidin; Sub-lethal effects

Neonicotinoids are the largest group of systemic insecticides worldwide and are most commonly applied as agricultural seed treatments. However, little is known about the extent to which farmland birds are exposed to these compounds during standard agricultural practices. This study uses winter cerea...