The investigation of honey bee pesticide poisoning incidents in Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41210/21:89099

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/chemosphere/vol/263/suppl/C" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/chemosphere/vol/263/suppl/C</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128056" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128056</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The investigation of honey bee pesticide poisoning incidents in Czechia

Original language description

Honey bees are major pollinators of crops with high economic value. Thus, bees are considered to be the most important nontarget organisms exposed to adverse effects of plant protection product use. The side effects of pesticides are one of the major factors often linked to colony losses. Fewer studies have researched acute poisoning incidents in comparison to the study of the sublethal effects of pesticides. Here, we compared pesticides in dead/dying bees from suspected poisoning incidents and the suspected crop source according to government protocols. Additionally, we analyzed live bees and bee bread collected from the brood comb to determine recent in-hive contamination. We used sites with no reports of poisoning for reference. Our analysis confirmed that not all of the suspected poisonings correlated with the suspected crop. The most important pesticides related to the poisoning incidents were highly toxic chlorpyrifos, deltamethrin, cypermethrin and imidacloprid and slightly toxic prochloraz and thiacloprid. Importantly, poisoning was associated with pesticide cocktail application. Almost all poisoning incidents were investigated in relation to rapeseed. Some sites were found to be heavily contaminated with several pesticides, including a reference site. However, other sites were moderately contaminated despite agricultural use, including rapeseed cultivation sites, which can influence the extent of pesticide use, including tank mixes and other factors. We suggest that the analysis of pesticides in bee bread and in bees from the brood comb is a useful addition to dead bee and suspected crop analysis in poisoning incidents to inform the extent of recent in-hive contamination

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Chemosphere

ISSN

0045-6535

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

263

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JAN 2021

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

128056

UT code for WoS article

000595802200171

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090123679