ArticleRoyal Society open science2020
No evidence for neonicotinoid preferences in the bumblebee
Article in Royal Society open science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Absence of pesticide avoidance during chronic colony-level exposure modifies locomotor activity in bumble bees.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2026Article
- Insecticide exposure alters feeding and impairs ovary development in a solitary bee.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2026Article
- Impacts of a fungicide and an insecticide on pollinator visitation and wildflower fitness.Functional ecology · 2025Article
- Chronic Exposure to Field-Level Thiamethoxam Impairs Gut Tissue and Reduces Honeybee (Insects · 2025Article
- Effects of common co-occurring pesticides (a neonicotinoid and fungicide) on honey bee colony health in a semi-field study.Heliyon · 2024Article
- A novel insecticide impairs bumblebee memory and sucrose responsiveness across high and low nutrition.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Mouthparts of the bumblebee (eLife · 2023Article
- Seed treatment with clothianidin induces changes in plant metabolism and alters pollinator foraging preferences.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2023Article
- Sublethal doses of insecticide reduce thermal tolerance of a stingless bee and are not avoided in a resource choice test.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Imidacloprid Pesticide Causes Unexpectedly Severe Bioelement Deficiencies and Imbalance in Honey Bees Even at Sublethal Doses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Environmental pharmacology-Dosing the environment: IUPHAR review 36.British journal of pharmacology · 2022Article
- Contact exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides temporarily suppresses the locomotor activity of Pardosa lugubris agrobiont wolf spiders.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A Combined LD50 for Agrochemicals and Pathogens in Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris [Hymenoptera: Apidae]).Environmental entomology · 2022Article
- Thiamethoxam as an inadvertent anti-aphrodisiac in male bees.Toxicology reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Neonicotinoid pesticides can have a multitude of negative sublethal effects on bees. Understanding their impact on wild populations requires accurately estimating the dosages bees encounter under natural conditions. This is complicated by the possibility that bees might influence their own exposure: two recent studies found that bumblebees (
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