Extrapolating from Honeybees to Bumblebees in Pesticide Risk Assessment

摘要: Bumblebees are important pollinators of many crops and wild flowers there both conservation economic reasons for taking action to assess the impact pesticides on bumblebees. Pesticide risk assessments honeybees based hazard ratios which rely application rates toxicity data unlikely be appropriate active at different times crop species are, therefore, likely have exposure profiles. Unlike honeybees, deaths bumblebees due reported, since bees not kept domestically will die in small numbers. This paper highlights differences potential posed by from that honeybees. is their through use flowering weeds available pesticides. information also intended as a source document foraging behavior phenology assessment