Toxic temperatures: Bee behaviours exhibit divergent pesticide toxicity relationships with warming

D Kenna, P Graystock, RJ Gill - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and agricultural intensification are exposing insect pollinators to
temperature extremes and increasing pesticide usage. Yet, we lack good quantification of …

Chronic effects of imidacloprid on honey bee worker development—molecular pathway perspectives

YR Chen, DTW Tzeng, EC Yang - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sublethal dosages of imidacloprid cause long-term destructive effects on honey bees at the
individual and colony levels. In this review, the molecular effects of sublethal imidacloprid …

Insect cuticle and insecticide development

Y Ren, Y Li, Y Ju, W Zhang… - Archives of Insect …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Insecticide resistance poses a significant challenge, diminishing the effectiveness of
chemical insecticides. To address this global concern, the development of novel and …

Nitenpyram disturbs gut microbiota and influences metabolic homeostasis and immunity in honey bee (Apis mellifera L.)

L Zhu, S Qi, X Xue, X Niu, L Wu - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, environmental risk and toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides to honey bees have
attracted extensive attention. However, toxicological understanding of neonicotinoid …

Pesticide risk to managed bees during blueberry pollination is primarily driven by off-farm exposures

KK Graham, MO Milbrath, Y Zhang, N Baert, S McArt… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
When managed bee colonies are brought to farms for crop pollination, they can be exposed
to pesticide residues. Quantifying the risk posed by these exposures can indicate which …

Chronic oral exposure to field-realistic pesticide combinations via pollen and nectar: effects on feeding and thermal performance in a solitary bee

C Azpiazu, J Bosch, E Viñuela, P Medrzycki, D Teper… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Pesticide use is one of the main causes of pollinator declines in agricultural ecosystems.
Traditionally, most laboratory studies on bee ecotoxicology test acute exposure to single …

Global transcriptomic effects of environmentally relevant concentrations of the neonicotinoids clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam in the brain of honey bees …

V Christen, M Schirrmann, JE Frey… - Environmental science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Neonicotinoids are implicated in the decline of honey bees, but the molecular basis
underlying adverse effects is poorly known. Here we describe global transcriptomic profiles …

A systems‐based approach to the environmental risk assessment of multiple stressors in honey bees

EFSA Scientific Committee, S More, V Bampidis… - Efsa …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Parliament requested EFSA to develop a holistic risk assessment of
multiple stressors in honey bees. To this end, a systems‐based approach that is composed …

[HTML][HTML] Melatonin enhances the antioxidant capacity to rescue the honey bee Apis mellifera from the ecotoxicological effects caused by environmental imidacloprid

Z Li, J Duan, L Chen, Y Wang, Q Qin, X Dang… - … and Environmental Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Imidacloprid severely poisons the nontarget insect honey bee Apis mellifera. Few treatments
are available to mitigate the adverse effects of imidacloprid. The primary concern is that the …

Conservation genomics reveals pesticide and pathogen exposure in the declining bumble bee Bombus terricola

N Tsvetkov, VJ MacPhail, SR Colla… - Molecular ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, many pollinators have experienced large population declines, which
threaten food security and the stability of natural ecosystems. Bumble bees are particularly …