TY - JOUR
AU - Thompson, Helen M.
AB - Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 831–840, 2017 # 2016 SETAC Printed in the USA COLONY IMPACT OF PESTICIDE-INDUCED SUBLETHAL EFFECTS ON HONEYBEE WORKERS: A SIMULATION STUDY USING BEEHAVE PERNILLE THORBEK,* PETER J. CAMPBELL, and HELEN M. THOMPSON Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre, Syngenta, Bracknell, United Kingdom (Submitted 17 May 2016; Returned for Revision 13 July 2016; Accepted 10 August 2016) Abstract: Research on neonicotinoids and honeybees have changed focus from direct mortality to sublethal effects. In the present study, a published honeybee model, BEEHAVE, is used to compare induced colony level impact of pesticides including direct mortality, poor brood care, disorientation, and increased handling time in oilseed rape and sunflower crops. Actual effects on individual bees will depend on exposure concentrations, but in the present study large effects were enforced. In oilseed rape, poor brood care had the largest colony impact, because it created a bottleneck for spring build-up of the workforce, and colony impact for all effect types peaked 1 mo after exposure ceased. In sunflower, the later exposure changed the response so colony impact peaked during exposure, and the bottleneck was honey store build-up. In all scenarios, good forage mitigated effects substantially. It 
TI - Colony impact of pesticide‐induced sublethal effects on honeybee workers: A simulation study using BEEHAVE
JO - Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
DO - 10.1002/etc.3581
DA - 2017-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/colony-impact-of-pesticide-induced-sublethal-effects-on-honeybee-JC9pV3klhw
SP - 831
EP - 840
VL - 36
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -