Bees are essential pollinators of many crops and wild plants, and pesticide exposure is one
of the key environmental stressors affecting their health in anthropogenically modified …

Pollination by insects is an essential service for the conservation of plant biodiversity, since it
increases the rate of fertilization of flowers and therefore increases the quality and quantity …

Climate change and agricultural intensification are exposing insect pollinators to
temperature extremes and increasing pesticide usage. Yet, we lack good quantification of …

Chemical pollution is among the fastest-growing agents of global change. Synthetic
chemicals with diverse modes-of-action are being detected in the tissues of wildlife and …

Emerging evidence suggests that insect populations may be declining at local and global
scales, threatening the sustainability of the ecosystem services that insects provide. Insect …

Pesticide use in agriculture threatens non-target insects such as bees. Considering the
ecological and economic relevance of native bees, such as Scaptotrigona postica, and the …

Although many toxicological evaluations have been conducted for honey bees (Apis
mellifera), most of these studies have only focused on the effects of individual chemicals …

Abstract Stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) are a group of highly eusocial bees with
pantropic distribution. The variety of life styles among the approximately 600 species and …

Insect pollinators are routinely exposed to a complex mixture of many pesticides. However,
traditional environmental risk assessment is only carried out based on ecotoxicological data …

The protection of soft-skinned fruits against Drosophila suzukii has relied primarily on the
efficacy of a few synthetic molecules. Despite their short-term efficacy, these molecules can …