Surrogate species in pesticide risk assessments: Toxicological data of three stingless bees species

APS Lourencetti, P Azevedo, L Miotelo… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Discussions about environmental risk reassessment of pesticides have grown in the last
decades, especially in tropical and subtropical regions since the diversity of bee species in …

Apis mellifera and Melipona scutellaris exhibit differential sensitivity to thiamethoxam

L Miotelo, ALM Dos Reis, JB Malaquias… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Apis mellifera is a pollinator insect model in pesticide risk assessment tests for bees.
However, given the economic and ecological importance of stingless bees such as …

Risk assessment requires several bee species to address species-specific sensitivity to insecticides at field-realistic concentrations

T Jütte, A Wernecke, F Klaus, J Pistorius… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In the European registration process, pesticides are currently mainly tested on the honey
bee. Since sensitivity data for other bee species are lacking for the majority of xenobiotics, it …

Extrapolating acute contact bee sensitivity to insecticides based on body weight using a phylogenetically informed interspecies scaling framework

T Pamminger - Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plant protection products, including insecticides, are important for global food production but
can have adverse effects on nontarget organisms including bees. Historically, research …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond generalists: The Brassicaceae pollen specialist Osmia brevicornis as a prospective model organism when exploring pesticide risk to bees

S Hellström, V Strobl, L Straub, WHA Osterman… - Environmental and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bees are under threat from agricultural intensification, and species which are pollen
specialists (oligolectic) are thought to have declined disproportionately compared to pollen …

Revisão da anatomia do sistema nervoso central de Apis mellifera: uma base teórica para estudos ecotoxicológicos

P Azevedo, RCF Nocelli - Revista da Biologia, 2020 - revistas.usp.br
As abelhas são essenciais para a manutenção da variabilidade genética vegetal de plantas
silvestres e cultivadas e, consequentemente, para a segurança alimentar mundial. Contudo …