About the Authors

Katherine Beadle

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine Beadle, Kumar Saurabh Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Kumar Saurabh Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine Beadle, Kumar Saurabh Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Bartlomiej J. Troczka

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Emma Randall

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Marion Zaworra

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer AG, Crop Science Division, R&D, Monheim, Germany

Christoph T. Zimmer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Syngenta Crop Protection, Werk Stein, Stein, Switzerland

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Angela Hayward

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Rebecca Reid

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Laura Kor

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Maxie Kohler

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer AG, Crop Science Division, R&D, Monheim, Germany

Benjamin Buer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer AG, Crop Science Division, R&D, Monheim, Germany

David R. Nelson

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America

Martin S. Williamson

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

T. G. Emyr Davies

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Linda M. Field

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biointeractions and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Ralf Nauen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ralf.nauen@bayer.com (RN); c.bass@exeter.ac.uk (CB)

Affiliation Bayer AG, Crop Science Division, R&D, Monheim, Germany

Chris Bass

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ralf.nauen@bayer.com (RN); c.bass@exeter.ac.uk (CB)

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

This study received funding from Bayer AG, a manufacturer of neonicotinoid insecticides. Three authors of this study (M. Zaworra, M. Kohler, R. Nauen and B. Buer) are employees of Bayer AG.