Neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee colony performance
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Background: Honeybees provide economically and ecologically vital pollination services to crops and wild plants. During the last decade elevated colony losses have been documented in Europe and North America. |
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Neonicotinoid insecticides and their impacts on bees
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It has been suggested that the widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides threatens bees, but research on this topic has been surrounded by controversy. In order to synthesize which research approaches have been used to examine the effect of neonicotinoids on bees and to identify knowledge gaps. |
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27-08-2015 |
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Neonicotinoid insecticides can serve as inadvertent insect contraceptives
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There is clear evidence for sublethal effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on non-target ecosystem service-providing insects. |
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28-08-2016 |
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Neonicotinoid insecticides impair foraging behavior, navigation, learning, and memory in honey bees
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The decline of pollinators worldwide is of growing concern. Both biotic and abiotic factors have been implicated as possible contributors to their decline; however, the potential role(s) of commonly-used neonicotinoid insecticides has emerged as particularly concerning. |
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Neonicotinoid pesticides can reduce honeybee colony genetic diversity
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Neonicotinoid insecticides can cause a variety of adverse sub-lethal effects in bees. In social species such as the honeybee, Apis mellifera, queens are essential for reproduction and colony functioning |
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23-10-2017 |
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Neonicotinoid pesticides severely affect honey bee queens
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Bees are vital to global biodiversity and food security through their pollination of plants, including several key crops. Overwhelming evidence now suggests that numerous wild and managed bee populations are in decline, |
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Neonicotinoid residues in UK honey despite European Union moratorium
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Due to concerns over negative impacts on insect pollinators, the European Union has implemented a moratorium on the use of three neonicotinoid pesticide seed dressings for mass-flowering crops |
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03-01-2018 |
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Neonicotinoid residues in wildflowers, a potential route of chronic exposure for bees
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In recent years, an intense debate has been generated about the environmental risks posed by neonicotinoids, a group of widely-used, neurotoxic insecticides. |
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14-10-2015 |
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Neonicotinoid seed-treated maize and wheat, threat to honeybees
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The immune system of bees is influenced by a diversity of factors, some of which have changed in the last 10 years such as the application of pesticides. In addition to pollen, nectar and dust, guttated water of seed-dressed plants |
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03-01-2011 |
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Neonicotinoid-ban derogations loom over France
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The French government is currently exploring a risky possibility by opening the gates for banned substances' |
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06-09-2020 |
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