Pesticide Exposure and Effects on Non-Apis Bees

NE Raine, M Rundlöf - Annual review of entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Bees are essential pollinators of many crops and wild plants, and pesticide exposure is one
of the key environmental stressors affecting their health in anthropogenically modified …

Wild bee nutritional ecology: Integrative strategies to assess foraging preferences and nutritional requirements

MK Crone, DJ Biddinger, CM Grozinger - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) queens prefer pesticide-contaminated soils when selecting underground hibernation sites

S Rondeau, NE Raine - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
New evidence points to substantial impacts of exposure to pesticide residues in soil for a
range of bee taxa that have close regular contact with this substrate. Among others, the risk …

Wild bees are exposed to low levels of pesticides in urban grasslands and community gardens

H Siviter, GL Pardee, N Baert, S McArt, S Jha… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Globally documented wild bee declines threaten sustainable food production and natural
ecosystem functioning. Urban environments are often florally abundant, and consequently …

Neonicotinoid contamination in conservation areas affects bees more sharply than beetles

J Tetlie, A Harmon-Threatt - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The neurotoxic insecticide class of neonicotinoids has become one of the most widely used
groups of pesticides globally. Their long half-lives and high water solubility increase their …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing exposure and impacts of combined pesticide residues in soil for ground-nesting bees and bumblebee (Bombus spp.) queens

S Rondeau - 2022 - atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca
Solitary ground-nesting bees in agricultural landscapes may be at risk of chronic contact
exposure with pesticide residues in soil during nest construction and immature …

[PDF][PDF] Pesticide risk indicator development for solitary bee species (Osmia spp.)

G Claus - 2022 - researchgate.net
PESTICIDE RISK INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT FOR SOLITARY BEE SPECIES (OSMIA
SPP.) Page 1 PESTICIDE RISK INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT FOR SOLITARY BEE …