Fipronil application on rice paddy fields reduces densities of common skimmer and scarlet skimmer

Several reports suggested that rice seedling nursery-box application of some systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil) is the cause of the decline in dragonfly species noted since the 1990s in Japan. We conducted paddy mesocosm experiments to investigate the effect of the systemic insectic...

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Main Authors: Kasai, Atsushi, Hayashi, Takehiko I., Ohnishi, Hitoshi, Suzuki, Kazutaka, Hayasaka, Daisuke, Goka, Koichi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793285/