Low concentrations of acetamiprid, deltamethrin, and sulfoxaflor, three commonly used insecticides, adversely affect ant queen survival and egg laying

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25271121%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000139" target="_blank" >RIV/25271121:_____/23:N0000139 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62690094:18470/23:50021186 RIV/00216208:11120/23:43926009

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42129-7" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42129-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42129-7" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-023-42129-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Low concentrations of acetamiprid, deltamethrin, and sulfoxaflor, three commonly used insecticides, adversely affect ant queen survival and egg laying

Original language description

Ants are key ecosystem service providers and can serve as important biological control agents in pest management. However, the efects of insecticides on common farmland ant species are poorly understood. We tested the efects of three commonly used insecticides on ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). The tested insecticides were acetamiprid (neonicotinoid; formulated as Mospilan 20 SP), deltamethrin (pyrethroid; formulated as Sanium Ultra), and sulfoxafor (sulflimine; formulated as Gondola). We tested two ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species with diferent colony founding strategies, Lasius niger (Linnaeus, 1758) and Myrmica rubra (Linnaeus, 1758). We sprayed their queens with insecticides at concentrations recommended for use in foliar applications in agriculture, i.e., at 1.25 g L−1 (acetamiprid), 0.6 g L−1 (sulfoxafor), and 0.875 g L−1 (deltamethrin). Further, we diluted the compounds in distilled water and tested them at 10%, 1%, and 0.1% of the feld-recommended concentrations, and used distilled water as a control. We monitored the survival of the queens and the number of eggs laid. All three tested insecticides caused severe lethal and sublethal concentrationdependent efects. Even at concentrations three orders of magnitudes lower than recommended for feld applications, signifcantly lower numbers of eggs were found in the queens’ nests. The extent of the sublethal efects of acetamiprid and sulfoxafor was concentration-dependent and difered between the two ant species. Besides bees and bumblebees, ants represent an important group of hymenopterans that are severely afected even by low concentrations of the tested compounds and therefore should be included in risk assessment schemes.

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

10616 - Entomology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

14893

UT code for WoS article

001109153800015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85170343378