Using a sentinel colony of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) to assess pesticides and food sources.

Martin Geria Reines; Natacha Chacoff; Alexis Sosa; Alberto Galindo-Cardona

doi:10.30550/j.azl/2021.65.2/2021-06-23

Autores

Martin Geria Reines Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Natacha Chacoff Instituto de Ecología Regional, CONICET – Universidad Nacional de Tucumán https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1115-6989
Alexis Sosa Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Alberto Galindo-Cardona CONICET; Fundación Miguel Lillo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3896-1934

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30550/j.azl/2021.65.2/2021-06-23

Palavras-chave:

Coumaphos, foraging behavior, honey bee management, pollen, spiridiclophen

Resumo

Honey bee populations are declining as occurs with other pollinators. One suggested cause of this decline is the impact of pesticides. To improve bees’ health, pesticides and food sources may be monitored using sentinel hives, given that bees forage in a 2.5 km radius around the hive. We extracted 20 (twenty) bees, as well as samples of wax, honey and pollen from a sentinel hive. Six pesticides were detected in the samples, except for the honey. All detected pesticides in the sentinel hive are pro- hibited in Argentina. Eight different plant families and genera were detected in the honey and pollen samples. Our work suggests that monitoring pesticides with sentinel beehives will be useful to improve agricultural practices in the region.

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Biografia do Autor

Alexis Sosa, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)

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