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Jonathan G. Wheeler
Researcher at University of Exeter
Publications - 1
Citations - 138
Jonathan G. Wheeler is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pesticide toxicity to bees & Worker bee. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 117 citations.
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Differential sensitivity of honey bees and bumble bees to a dietary insecticide (imidacloprid)
James E. Cresswell,Christopher J. Page,Mehmet B. Uygun,Marie Holmbergh,Yueru Li,Jonathan G. Wheeler,Ian Laycock,Chris Pook,Natalie Hempel de Ibarra,Nicholas Smirnoff,Charles R. Tyler +10 more
TL;DR: It is speculated that honey bees are better pre-adapted than bumble bees to feed on nectars containing synthetic alkaloids, such as imidacloprid, by virtue of their ancestral adaptation to tropical nectar in which natural alkaloid are prevalent.