Publication Date:
2012-03-31
Description:
Nonlethal exposure of honey bees to thiamethoxam (neonicotinoid systemic pesticide) causes high mortality due to homing failure at levels that could put a colony at risk of collapse. Simulated exposure events on free-ranging foragers labeled with a radio-frequency identification tag suggest that homing is impaired by thiamethoxam intoxication. These experiments offer new insights into the consequences of common neonicotinoid pesticides used worldwide.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Henry, Mickael -- Beguin, Maxime -- Requier, Fabrice -- Rollin, Orianne -- Odoux, Jean-Francois -- Aupinel, Pierrick -- Aptel, Jean -- Tchamitchian, Sylvie -- Decourtye, Axel -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Apr 20;336(6079):348-50. doi: 10.1126/science.1215039. Epub 2012 Mar 29.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UR406 Abeilles et Environnement, F-84914 Avignon, France. mickael.henry@avignon.inra.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461498" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bees/*drug effects/*physiology
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*Colony Collapse
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Feeding Behavior
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Female
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Homing Behavior/*drug effects
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Insecticides/*toxicity
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Male
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Nitro Compounds/*toxicity
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Oxazines/*toxicity
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Population Dynamics
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Radio Frequency Identification Device
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Risk Factors
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Thiazoles/*toxicity
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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