Charlie C Nicholson, Jessica Knapp, Tomasz Kiljanek, Matthias Albrecht, Marie-Pierre Chauzat, Cecilia Costa, Pilar De la Rúa, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Marika Mänd, Simon G Potts, Oliver Schweiger, Irene Bottero, Elena Cini, Joachim R de Miranda, Gennaro Di Prisco, Christophe Dominik, Simon Hodge, Vera Kaunath, Anina Knauer, Marion Laurent, Vicente Martínez-López, Piotr Medrzycki, Maria Helena Pereira-Peixoto, Risto Raimets, Janine M Schwarz, Deepa Senapathi, Giovanni Tamburini, Mark J F Brown, Jane C Stout, Maj Rundlöf
Sustainable agriculture requires balancing crop yields with the effects of pesticides on non-target organisms, such as bees and other crop pollinators. Field studies demonstrated that agricultural use of neonicotinoid insecticides can negatively affect wild bee species1,2 , leading to restrictions on these compounds3 . However, besides neonicotinoids, field-based evidence of the effects of landscape pesticide exposure on wild bees is lacking. Bees encounter many pesticides in agricultural landscapes4-9 and the effects of this landscape exposure on colony growth and development of any bee species remains unknown...
November 29, 2023: Nature