Here, we explore honey bee reactions to two new plant protection products: sulfoxaflor and flupyradifurone

As we learned today, on 9 October 2015, the European Commission and Member States have authorised Flupyradifurone, a new neonicotinoid insecticide.

We measured the distribution of sugar solution within groups of caged honey bees (Apis mellifera) under standard in vitro laboratory conditions using 14C polyethylene glycol as a radioactive marker to analyze ingestion by individual bees after group feeding.

In this study, honeybees’ foraging activities, as well as their seasonal and monthly abundance were studied and evaluated.

A larval rearing method was adapted to assess the chronic oral toxicity to honey bee larvae of the four most common pesticides detected in pollen and wax - fluvalinate, coumaphos, chlorothalonil, and chloropyrifos - tested alone and in all combinations

This study describes the impact of sublethal doses of 4 pesticides on size and morphology of the honeybee worker’s hypopharyngeal glands.

Monitoring & analysis of honey bee losses in over 36 countries is mainly carried out by citizen science & volunteer beekeepers.

Of the 320 samples received from the competent authorities of the participating countries, 147 (46 %) were suspicious.