A Common Pesticide Decreases Foraging Success and Survival in Honey Bees

By Mickaël Henry, M. Béguin, Fabrice Requier, Orianne Rollin, J. Odoux, P. Aupinel, Jean Aptel, S. Tchamitchian, A. Decourtye. Science, 2012

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees (2017, background): “Neonicotinoids have been shown to increase mortality in honeybees by impairing their homing ability (4) and to reduce the reproductive success of bumblebees (5, 8, 10) and solitary bees (8, 11), while other studies have identified no effects (8, 12, 13).”
• Sublethal doses of imidacloprid decreased size of hypopharyngeal glands and respiratory rhythm of honeybees in vivo (2013, neutral): “2008), on communication by dances (Kirchner 1999), on homing behavior (Bortolotti et al. 2003; Henry et al. 2012), and on neurophysiological effects (Guez et al.”
• Mainstreaming ecosystem services into EU policy (2013, background): “Such drivers, for instance the use of pesticides [51,52] or the presence of pollinator supporting habitats in the landscape were not included in this study.”
• Biotic and Abiotic Factors Associated with Colonies Mortalities of Managed Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) (2019, background): “Increased mortality as a result of disorientation and inability to find the way back to the hive has been observed in bees intoxicated with thiamethoxam [101,102].”
• Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise (2013, background): “For example, honeybees have also been shown to suffer adverse sub-lethal effects from pesticide exposure (Henry et al., 2012) and may be threatened by reduced density of flowers in the landscape (Kuldna et al., 2009).”
• Dynamic modelling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony growth and failure (2013, background): “There is increasing evidence of sublethal pesticide doses having significant impacts on bee populations in agricultural environments (Henry et al., 2012).”
• Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates (2014, positive): “Thiamethoxam induces high mortality by causing failure in the homing behaviour of foraging bees, leading to large losses of foragers from the colony (Henry et al. 2012a, b).”
• Toxicity and biochemical changes in the honey bee Apis mellifera exposed to four insecticides under laboratory conditions (2015, background): “Besides this direct effect, neonicotinoids have sublethal effects on honey bees (Aliouane et al. 2009; Blacquiere et al. 2012; Cresswell et al. 2012; Henry et al. 2012; Laurino et al. 2011).”
• BEEtag: A Low-Cost, Image-Based Tracking System for the Study of Animal Behavior and Locomotion (2015, methodology): “Another important limitation when considering the utility of BEEtag for specific applications are the challenges of data storage and processing, which can be significant for any image processing techniques when compared to alternative tracking techniques such as RFID [12].”