Response by Henry et al. to Comment by Cresswell and Thompson on “A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees”

Cresswell and Thompson have suggested an elegant way to improve honey bee colony simulations when forecasting the fate of colonies exposed to pesticides. Following their recommendations, we rescaled the model on a sound empirical data set. The adjusted forecast is bleaker than their tentative scenario.

Source:
Mickaël Henry, Maxime Béguin, Fabrice Requier, Orianne Rollin, Jean-François Odoux, Pierrick Aupinel, Jean Aptel, Sylvie Tchamitchian, Axel Decourtye.
Science 21 September 2012: Vol. 337 no. 6101 p. 1453 DOI: 10.1126/science.1224930 (attached)