Fatal powdering of bees in flight with particulates of neonicotinoids seed coating and humidity implication

By V. Girolami, M. Marzaro, Linda Vivan, L. Mazzon, M. Greatti, C. Giorio, D. Marton, A. Tapparo. 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Neonicotinoids in bees: a review on concentrations, side-effects and risk assessment (2012, background): “Similar findings were also reported by Girolami et al. (2011), exposing honey bees to dust from clothianidin and imidacloprid-treated seeds.”
Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates (2014, unknown): “Honeybees also transport toxic dust particles on their bodies into the hive (Girolami et al. 2012).”
Pesticide Residues and Bees – A Risk Assessment (2014, background): “i) by direct exposure to either drift droplets, which are scattered during the foliar spraying of crops [33], dust from seed drilling at planting [78], or inhalation of volatile pesticides during or after application to the crops; and”
Weed-insect pollinator networks as bio-indicators of ecological sustainability in agriculture. A review (2016, background): “Therefore, features such as floral color and symmetry play a key role in plant-pollinator systems (Giurfa et al. 1999; Cooley et al. 2008).”
Multiple Routes of Pesticide Exposure for Honey Bees Living Near Agricultural Fields (2012, background): “Interestingly, however, these bees did not die unless they were kept in conditions of high humidity [22].”
Sublethal doses of imidacloprid decreased size of hypopharyngeal glands and respiratory rhythm of honeybees in vivo (2013, unknown): “Another way that honeybees are exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides arises when seed-dressed plants are sown and dust disperses from the sowing machine and drifts to the wild vegetation, thereby negatively impacting foraging honeybees (Greatti et al. 2003, 2006; Maini et al. 2010; Girolami et al. 2”
Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil (2014, background): “…that the sowing of treated seeds results in the development of a “toxic” dust cloud around the planting machine, where concentrations of insecticide particles reach levels of up to 30 μg/m3, a concentration sufficient to kill bees passing through in a single flight (Girolami et al. 2012, 2013).”
Standard methods for toxicology research in Apis mellifera (2013, methodology): “It has been shown that bees can be contaminated with potentially lethal doses of insecticide simply by flying in the vicinity of a pneumatic drilling machine using seeds coated with insecticide (Marzaro et al., 2011; Girolami et al., 2012).”
Reduction in homing flights in the honey bee Apis mellifera after a sublethal dose of neonicotinoid insecticides (2013, background): “Although neonicotinoid has been focused because of its systemic (Laurent and Rathahao, 2003), recently contact exposure of neonicotinoid has also been revealed to cause serious damages on honey bee (Marzaro et al., 2011; Krupke et al., 2012; Girolami et al., 2012; Sgolastra et al., 2012).”