Systematic review of residual toxicity studies of pesticides to bees and veracity of guidance on pesticide labels.

ABSTRACT: Residues of pesticides on crops can result in mortality to foraging bees. Pesticide applicators in the U.S. encounter a statement on pesticide labels, which coarsely indicate which products dissipate over the course of an evening. There is reason to suspect that these statements may not align with residual toxicity data, given previous findings. Without a complete database of residual toxicity estimates; however, it is not possible to determine whether the residual toxicity components of statements on pesticide labels similarly diverge from published studies. We compiled 50 studies on residual toxicity trials with formulated pesticides and calculated the residual time to 25% mortality (RT₂₅) of each assay for three different bee species (Apis mellifera, Nomia melanderi, a

SUBMITTER: Swanson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10771081 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature