Pesticide risk assessment in honeybees: Toward the use of behavioral and reproductive performances as assessment endpoints

L Barascou, JL Brunet, L Belzunces, A Decourtye… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing gap between new evidence of pesticide toxicity in honeybees and conventional
toxicological assays recommended by regulatory test guidelines emphasizes the need to …

Traces of a neonicotinoid induce precocious foraging and reduce foraging performance in honey bees

T Colin, WG Meikle, X Wu… - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
There is increasing worldwide concern about the impacts of pesticide residues on honey
bees and bee colony survival, but how sublethal effects of pesticides on bees might cause …

Comprehensive survey of area-wide agricultural pesticide use in southern United States row crops and potential impact on honey bee colonies

J Zawislak, J Adamczyk, DR Johnson, G Lorenz… - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
Honey bees forage across a large area, continually scouting the local landscape for
ephemeral food resources. Beekeepers often rely on flowering plants in and around …

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 …

Fipronil pesticide as a suspect in historical mass mortalities of honey bees

PJ Holder, A Jones, CR Tyler… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Mass mortalities of honey bees occurred in France in the 1990s coincident with the
introduction of two agricultural insecticides, imidacloprid and fipronil. Imidacloprid, a …

Effects of coumaphos and imidacloprid on honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) lifespan and antioxidant gene regulations in laboratory experiments

A Gregorc, M Alburaki, N Rinderer, B Sampson… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The main objective of this study was to test comparatively the effects of two common
insecticides on honey bee Apis mellifera worker's lifespan, food consumption, mortality, and …

Neonicotinoids in the agroecosystem: In-field long-term assessment on honeybee colony strength and microbiome

D Alberoni, R Favaro, L Baffoni, S Angeli… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bees can be severely affected by various plant protection products (PPP). Among these,
neonicotinoid insecticides are of concern as they have been shown to be responsible for …

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 …

Internal hive temperature as a means of monitoring honey bee colony health in a migratory beekeeping operation before and during winter

WG Meikle, M Weiss, PW Maes, W Fitz, LA Snyder… - Apidologie, 2017 - Springer
Internal temperatures of honey bee hives kept at different sites in North Dakota were
monitored before and during winter to evaluate the effects of treatment, in the form of …

Chronic toxicity of clothianidin, imidacloprid, chlorpyrifos, and dimethoate to Apis mellifera L. larvae reared in vitro

P Dai, CJ Jack, AN Mortensen… - Pest management …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The effects of chronic exposure to two neonicotinoids (clothianidin and
imidacloprid) and two organophosphates (chlorpyrifos and dimethoate) on survival …