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Title	Crop-Emptying Rate and the Design of Pesticide Risk Assessment Schemes in the Honey Bee and Wild Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author	Alice Fournie, Orianne Rollin, Violette Le Féon, Axel Decourtye, and Mickaël Henry
Date	2014
Description	Sublethal effects were liable to cause homing failure in forager honey bees, with possible consequences for the colony as a whole. Similarly, sublethal pesticide exposures in bumble bees might cause severe slowdown in the dynamics of colonies, with reduced queen production, brood development, and worker foraging performance. Nonetheless, investigation of sublethal effects still remains incidental in the current pesticide testing schemes, and toxicity on bees other than the honey bee is not covered in conventional risk assessment. There is uncertainty regarding the extent to which the honey bee can serve as surrogate for the many other bee species.
Keywords	honey bee, toxicity, pollinator, wild bee, decline, body size, crop-emptying rate, thiamethoxam
URL	http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1603/EC13087
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