[Pollinator] List of Neonicotinoid Reseach - please add to it

Wed Aug 1 09:28:03 PDT 2012

Two more papers for the list that I know of are:

Dively, G. P., & A. Kamel. 2012. Insecticide residues in pollen and nectar of a cucurbit crop and their potential exposure to pollinators. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 60:4449-4456.

Hoffmann, E. J., & S. J. Castle. 2012. Imidacloprid in melon guttation fluid: A potential mode of exposure for pest and beneficial organisms. Journal of Economic Entomology 105:67-71.

Also, it might be worth looking through the references list in “Are Neonicotinoids Killing Bees?” (http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Are-Neonicotinoids-Killing-Bees_Xerces-Society1.pdf), which is a pretty comprehensive review of the literature relating to neonics and pollinators.

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From: pollinator-bounces+mdshepherd=xerces.org at lists.sonic.net [mailto:pollinator-bounces+mdshepherd=xerces.org at lists.sonic.net] On Behalf Of Ladadams at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:26 AM
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Subject: [Pollinator] List of Neonicotinoid Reseach - please add to it

This call comes from Buglife in England, and it you want to add studies to the list, please send them both to info at pollinator.org and Matt.Shardlow at BUGLIFE.ORG.UK.  We will post this list on www.pollinator.org <http://www.pollinator.org/>  and www.nappc.org <http://www.nappc.org/> . 

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From: Matt.Shardlow at BUGLIFE.ORG.UK
To: ICPBR at LISTSERV.UOGUELPH.CA
Sent: 7/31/2012 2:42:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Re: Bee protection group (bumblebee) under fire for failing to fight pesticide "armageddon."

Here is a summary of recent research into Neonicotinoids, please let me know if there are any significant studies missing.

Cheers

Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Shardlow 
Sent: 30 July 2012 21:56
To: Peter Kevan; ICPBR at LISTSERV.UOGUELPH.CA
Subject: RE: Bee protection group (bumblebee) under fire for failing to fight pesticide "armageddon."

In 2009 Buglife did a thorough review of the available scientific evidence of effects of neonicotinoids on insects http://www.buglife.org.uk/Resources/Buglife/revised%20neonics%20report.pdf

We have not repeated this recently, but another review is justified.  We do also have a summary of post 2009 research but can’t claim it is comprehensive; I can circulate that tomorrow if people are interested.

For ICPBR members to focus on the scientific data is of course correct, but also significant and relevant to the ICPBR are the regulatory pesticide authorisation processes and the scientific quality and breadth of risk assessment of those processes.

Currently the risk assessment processes do not include any assessment of the effects of insecticides on wild pollinators, hence formal  pesticide approval processes (such as the EU DAR) cannot assure us that the approved chemicals are therefore environmentally safe.  This is not just the opinion of Buglife, it is also the opinion of Defra/Fera and the European Food Safety Authority.

The 2008 Fera/Defra report ‘Are pesticide risk assessments for honeybees protective of other pollinators’ states that:-

“There are many cases where species are several orders of magnitude more sensitive on a per individual or weight basis than honeybees, e.g. Lepidopteran larvae. Therefore more detailed information on the toxicity of pesticides to a range of species and life stages is required to assess the sensitivity of wild pollinators relative to honeybees.”

“Given the wide range of plants species dependent on non-Apis [non-Honeybee] pollinators a reduction in wild pollinators is likely to have knock on effects on the plant species pollinated by them, resulting in less forage.”  

“More detailed toxicity and exposure information for a range of species is required for a robust assessment of the risk posed.”

http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu <http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&Completed=0&ProjectID=15390> &Module=More&Location=None&Completed=0&ProjectID=15390

The very recent ‘Scientific Opinion on the science behind the development of a risk assessment of Plant Protection Products on bees (Apis mellifera, Bombus spp. and solitary bees)’ European Food Safety Authority (2012) report states:-

“Larvae of solitary bees consume large mass provisions with unprocessed pollen thus, compared with honey bee larvae, they are more exposed to residues in pollen. Moreover, bumble bees and solitary bees may be exposed to a larger extent via contact with nesting material (soil or plants) compared to honey bees, suggesting the need for a separate risk assessment for bumble bees and solitary bees.”

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/2668.htm

I hope most ICPBR members can support the call for introducing a range of standard tests of pesticides across a range of non-target pollinator groups.  If we can achieve these improvements in the scientific process then in the future pesticides are much less likely to damage pollinator populations.

Best wishes

Matt

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