{"id":2478,"date":"2015-11-21T18:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T18:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enviroscholars.com\/wp2\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2016-01-03T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T11:19:00","slug":"bees-and-pesticides-missing-link-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enviroscholars.com\/wp2\/bees-and-pesticides-missing-link-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees and pesticides &#8216;missing link&#8217; found"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"story-body__introduction\">Scientists say they have found the &#8220;missing link&#8221; in the debate over the risk of pesticides to bees.<\/h3>\n<p>French researchers say neonicotinoid pesticides harm individual honeybees, but whole colonies are able to recover in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>This accounts for discrepancies between lab and field studies, they report in <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/\">Royal Society journal Proceedings B<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Europe-wide ban on neonicotinoid use on flowering crops is due to be reviewed at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It was introduced two years ago.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"quote-inner\">\n<blockquote class=\"quote\"><p>The population inside the hive was able to compensate for the increased loss of worker honeybees by increasing brood production<\/p>\n<footer>Dr Mickael Henry , INRA, Avignon<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The debate over the use of neonics has centred on discrepancies between toxicity assessments in the laboratory, where bees are dosed artificially with insecticide, and the findings of field trials in the countryside.<\/p>\n<p>The big unanswered question is whether harmful effects seen in lab studies occur in real-life conditions and cause population declines.<\/p>\n<p>The new research provides an explanation for the &#8220;missing link&#8221;, say French researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Their monitoring of tagged honeybees in the wild suggests bees foraging around treated crops die off at a faster rate than normal.<\/p>\n<p>However, colonies are able to make up for those dying off by boosting the number of worker bees in the hive.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Dr Mickael Henry of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA, in Avignon, said the average life expectancy for an individual honeybee foraging on crops treated with neonics is lower than expected.<\/p>\n<p>He told BBC News: &#8220;We could find evidence of troubles at the individual scale in the field but these troubles were compensated for by the colonies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The population inside the hive was able to compensate for the increased loss of worker honeybees by increasing brood production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/media\/images\/82488000\/jpg\/_82488886_6_osmia_bicornis_female_at_nest_morganboch-1024x680.jpg?resize=640%2C360\" alt=\"A field study found harmful effects on the solitary bee\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Morgan Boch<\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><span class=\"media-caption__text\">A field study found harmful effects on the solitary bee<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/media\/images\/75755000\/jpg\/_75755330_450230116.jpg?resize=624%2C351\" alt=\"dead bees\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><span class=\"media-caption__text\">The decline of bees around the world has increased focus on neonicotinoid chemicals<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr Scott Hayward of the University of Birmingham, who was not connected with the study, said the work &#8220;re-ignites arguments to ban neonics&#8221;, and similar studies are now needed on other pollinator species.<\/p>\n<p>His comments were echoed by Dr Christopher Connolly of the University of Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important to remember that all other insect pollinators do not possess the enormous buffering capacity of honeybees and are therefore more acutely at risk to the impact of pesticides,&#8221; 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