Water provisioning increases caged worker bee lifespan
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Comparisons were made between changes in median lifespan and experimental design variables, population, water use, pollen use, pollen substitute use. |
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09-11-2022 |
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What’s new on neonics?
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Neonicotinoid pesticides (“neonics”) are nicotine-based insecticides that target the central nervous system of insect pests. They are systemic pesticides, meaning they are absorbed by the plant and contaminate all plant tissues |
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29-09-2017 |
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Why are neonicotinoids a threat to ecological health and safety of the European Union?
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Neonicotinoid pesticides pose problems to the ecological health and safety of the EU. For this reason, under existing legislation, the Commission intends to apply the precautionary principle though legislative action. |
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26-10-2013 |
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Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers
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The pressures on honeybee (Apis mellifera) populations, resulting from threats by modern pesticides, parasites, predators and diseases, have raised awareness of the economic importance and critical role this insect plays in agricultural societies across the globe. |
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11-11-2015 |
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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
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We found universally positive associations of fruit set with flower visitation by wild insects in 41 crop systems worldwide. |
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10-03-2013 |
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Wild and domestic honey in byzantine hagiography
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Information provided by Byzantine Hagiography relating to the production, collection and consumption of honey is not copious but unique. |
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03-03-2019 |
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Will the use of neonicotinoids in greenhouses continue to present a risk for bees and other organisms?
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The European Commission has proposed a ban on three neonicotinoids – imidacloprid,clothianidin and thiamethoxam – on all crops with the exception of crops grown in permanent greenhouses, “where the crop stays its entire life cycle within the greenhouse and is thus not replanted outside” |
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19-12-2017 |
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Wintering Fertilized Queens in Banks
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Doctor Alfred Dietz, from America, was invited to Paris by ANERCEA to give a conference on the theme of "Wintering Fertilized Queens in Banks". |
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23-06-1986 |
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Workshop - The health status of a managed honeybee colony
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The EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, together with the Panel on Plant Health, is working on the HEALTHY-B self-mandate that has the objective to map indicators and factors that could be included in large field studies |
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07-07-2016 |
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Worldwide integrated assessment of the impacts of systemic pesticides
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In July 2009, a group of entomologists and ornithologists met at Notre Dame de Londres, a small village in the French department of Hérault, as a result of an international enquiry amongst entomologists on the catastrophic decline of insects (and arthropods in general) all over Europe. |
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24-06-2015 |
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