Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout
much of the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely been focused on reducing …

Neonicotinoids have been used to protect crops and animals from insect pests since the
1990s, but there are concerns regarding their adverse effects on nontarget organisms …

Cultivation of mass flowering entomophilous crops benefits from the presence of managed
and wild pollinators, who visit flowers to forage on pollen and nectar. However, management …

Climate change and agricultural intensification are exposing insect pollinators to
temperature extremes and increasing pesticide usage. Yet, we lack good quantification of …

Microbiome-mediated insecticide resistance is an emerging phenomenon found in insect
pests. However, microbiome composition can vary by host genotype and environmental …

There is growing evidence that pesticides may be among the causes of worldwide bee
declines, which has resulted in repeated calls for their increased scrutiny in regulatory …

The human population will be approximately 9.7 billion by 2050, and food security has been
identified as one of the key issues facing the global population. Agrochemicals are an …

Bumblebees are constantly exposed to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stresses which
they must defend themselves against to survive. Pathogens and pesticides represent …

Bumblebees play a vital role in both natural and agricultural environments, but there has
been a noticeable decline in their populations. Pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids, are …

Bees depend on flowering plants for their nutrition, and reduced availability of floral
resources is a major driver of declines in both managed and wild bee populations …