The potential impacts of insecticides on the life-history traits of bees and the consequences for pollination

By Claire A. Brittain, S. Potts. 2011

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

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Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees (2012, methodology): “Overall, we collected data from 259 recognised foragers from 32 colonies (n colonies: Control=7; I=10; LC=8; M=7) making 8751 foraging bouts (median (inter-quartile range) per worker=23(10-44); for criteria used to classify foragers and foraging bouts see Methods).”
Economic gain, stability of pollination and bee diversity decrease from southern to northern Europe (2013, background): “…Oviedo, & Duran 2008; Kremen, illiams, & Thorp 2002; Quintero, Morales, & Aizen 2010; teffan-Dewenter & Tscharntke 1999), the use of pesticides Brittain & Potts 2011; Johansen 1977), invasive species Ghazoul 2004; Schweiger et al. 2010), introduced pathogens Cameron et al. 2011) and climate…”
Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “Pesticide application has also been linked to declines in populations of non-target plants and insects (20), and the development, foraging patterns, and effectiveness of bees and natural enemies of crop pests (36, 143).”
Chronic impairment of bumblebee natural foraging behaviour induced by sublethal pesticide exposure (2014, background): “These colony sizes reflect a realistic developmental stage of natural colonies when many agricultural crops come into flower in Europe (see Thompson 2001; Brittain & Potts 2011) and when the majority of pesticide treatments are applied (March to June: Garthwaite et al. 2012a,b).”
Standard methods for toxicology research in Apis mellifera (2013, background): “Each sublethal individual assay is important so one can know if the adult bees are capable of accomplishing one of the activities essential for perpetuating the bee colony and maintaining its ecological role (Brittain and Potts, 2011).”
The relative performance of sampling methods for native bees: an empirical test and review of the literature (2020, background): “…group and bee functional traits (e.g., body size, lecty, and sociality) influence various variables of interest, such as response to land-use change (Williams et al. 2010, Banaszak-Cibicka and _Zmihorski 2012, Rader et al. 2014) and pollination services (Brittain and Potts 2011, Munyuli 2014).”