ArticlePeerJ2021
No evidence of effects or interaction between the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, and a common parasite in bumble bees.
Article in PeerJ, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Direct and Indirect Effects of a Glyphosate-Based Herbicide on Spodoptera frugiperda Multiple Nucleopolyhedrovirus (Insects · 2026Article
- Neither sulfoxaflor, Crithidia bombi, nor their combination impact bumble bee colony development or field bean pollination.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- No impacts of glyphosate or Crithidia bombi, or their combination, on the bumblebee microbiome.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The effects of glyphosate, pure or in herbicide formulation, on bumble bees and their gut microbial communities.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Parasite and Pesticide Impacts on the Bumblebee (International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Intra-specific variation in sensitivity of Bombus terrestris and Osmia bicornis to three pesticides.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Do pesticide and pathogen interactions drive wild bee declines?International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2022Article
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundGlyphosate is the world's most used pesticide and it is used without the mitigation measures that could reduce the exposure of pollinators to it. However, studies are starting to suggest negative impacts of this pesticide on bees, an essential group of pollinators. Accordingly, whether glyphosate, alone or alongside other stressors, is detrimental to bee health is a vital question. Bees are suffering declines across the globe, and pesticides, including glyphosate, have been suggested as being factors in these declines.
methodsHere we test, across a range of experimental paradigms, whether glyphosate impacts a wild bumble bee species,
resultsWe found no effects of acute or chronic exposure to glyphosate, over a range of timespans post-exposure, on mortality or a range of sublethal metrics. We also found no interaction between glyphosate and
conclusionsOur results expand the current knowledge on glyphosate by testing a previously untested species,
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