ArticleEcology and evolution2019
Pesticide exposure affects flight dynamics and reduces flight endurance in bumblebees.
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- Bumble bee movement ecology: foraging and dispersal across castes and life stages.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2025Review
- Acute and chronic pesticide exposure trigger fundamentally different molecular responses in bumble bee brains.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Novel fungicide and neonicotinoid insecticide impair flight behavior in pollen foraging honey bees, Apis mellifera.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- You are what you eat - The influence of polyphagic and monophagic diet on the flight performance of bees.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Current Insights into Sublethal Effects of Pesticides on Insects.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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- Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Affects the Social Behavior of Adult Zebrafish by Damaging Telencephalon Neurons through Oxidation Stress, Inflammation, and Apoptosis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Side-effects of pesticides on non-target insects in agriculture: a mini-review.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2022Review
- Lethal and sublethal effects of thiamethoxam, a neonicotinoid molecule, on colony performance of A. mellifera.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Flight performance of pollen starved honey bees and incomplete compensation through ingestion after early life pollen deprivation.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Chronic exposure to insecticides impairs honeybee optomotor behaviour.Frontiers in insect science · 2022Article
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Abstract
The emergence of agricultural land use change creates a number of challenges that insect pollinators, such as eusocial bees, must overcome. Resultant fragmentation and loss of suitable foraging habitats, combined with pesticide exposure, may increase demands on foraging, specifically the ability to collect or reach sufficient resources under such stress. Understanding effects that pesticides have on flight performance is therefore vital if we are to assess colony success in these changing landscapes. Neonicotinoids are one of the most widely used classes of pesticide across the globe, and exposure to bees has been associated with reduced foraging efficiency and homing ability. One explanation for these effects could be that elements of flight are being affected, but apart from a couple of studies on the honeybee (
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