The registration of pesticides in the European Union requires the assessment of the toxicity
of active substances to soil invertebrates. The most commonly tested soil microarthropod …

Standard toxicity tests expose springtails (Collembola) through soil, while dietary exposure
tests with animals visible on a surface are less commonly applied. We refined a method for …

Growth is an important toxicity end-point in ecotoxicology but is rarely used in soil
ecotoxicological studies. Here, we assessed the growth change of Oppia nitens when …

Pesticides are an environmental problem. The search for new pest control methods has
focused on compounds with low or no toxic effects in non-target organisms. Analogs of the …

Bradysia odoriphaga and Bradysia difformis are destructive root maggots that cause severe
losses to vegetables, flowers and edible fungi. Due to the long-term dependence on single …

Honey bees (Apis mellifera), the most widely utilized commercial pollinator, have
experienced rapid declines over the past two decades due to a synergy of stressors that …

" The blue planet". In the standard toxicity test of chemicals using Collembola, we often use
water flotation to bring the Collembola to the water surface because their skin is very …