| In late April 2008, dust drift containing insecticide resulted in the largest bee poisoning in Germany for 30 years. The reason for these incidents was the contamination of flowering bee forage plants with dust particles abraded from maize seeds treated with Clothianidin recorded in the Upper Rhine Valley, Baden-Wuerttemberg and in parts of Bavaria during sowing of maize.

Clothianidin, an insecticidal active substance from the group of neonicotinoids, works as agonist at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors with broad spectrum of efficacy. Clothianidin is also used as a seed dressing of maize (agent for seed treatment “Poncho Pro®”; 1,.25 mg a.i. Clothianidin./kernel) for the control of the... |
