Marion Laurent, Stéphanie Bougeard, Lucile Caradec, Florence Ghestem, Matthias Albrecht, Mark J F Brown, Joachim D E Miranda, Reet Karise, Jessica Knapp, José Serrano, Simon G Potts, Maj Rundlöf, Janine Schwarz, Eleanor Attridge, Aurélie Babin, Irene Bottero, Elena Cini, Pilar D E L A Rúa, Gennaro D I Prisco, Christophe Dominik, Daniel Dzul, Andrés G A R C Í A Reina, Simon Hodge, Alexandra M Klein, Anina Knauer, Marika Mand, Vicente M A R T Í N E Z López, Giorgia Serra, Helena Pereira-Peixoto, Risto Raimets, Oliver Schweiger, Deepa Senapathi, Jane C Stout, Giovanni Tamburini, Cecilia Costa, Tomasz Kiljanek, Anne-Claire Martel, L E Sébastien, Marie-Pierre Chauzat
Declines in insect pollinators have been linked to a range of causative factors such as disease, loss of habitats, the quality and availability of food, and exposure to pesticides. Here, we analysed an extensive dataset generated from pesticide screening of foraging insects, pollen-nectar stores/beebread, pollen and ingested nectar across three species of bees collected at 128 European sites set in two types of crop. In this paper, we aimed to (i) derive a new index to summarise key aspects of complex pesticide exposure data and (ii) understand the links between pesticide exposures depicted by the different matrices, bee species and apple orchards versus oilseed rape crops...
April 1, 2024: Science of the Total Environment