No evidence of effects or interaction between the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, and a common parasite in bumble bees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Glyphosate is the world's most used pesticide and it is used without the mitigation measures that could reduce the exposure of pollinators to it. However, studies are starting to suggest negative impacts of this pesticide on bees, an essential group of pollinators. Accordingly, whether glyphosate, alone or alongside other stressors, is detrimental to bee health is a vital question. Bees are suffering declines across the globe, and pesticides, including glyphosate, have been suggested as being factors in these declines.

Methods

Here we test, across a range of experimental paradigms, whether glyphosate impacts a wild bumble bee species, Bombus terrestris. In addition, we build upon existing work with honey bees testing glyphosate-parasite interactions by cond

SUBMITTER: Straw EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8605762 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature