Monitoring on impact of insecticides on mortality of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in front of beehives
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The present study investigated effect of pesticide usage and public awareness on honey bee mortality. The experiments were conducted at three different sites at Maharashtra, India with domesticated bee hives of Apis mellifera L. The maximum bee mortality during 51st week of 2012-13 (1559.10 bees/hive/week) clearly indicated towards the direct and indirect effect of insecticides in general at study site I (Case I). Similar experiments were repeated at other two different sites during 2013-14. Farmers (Case II and III) were aware of beekeeping and ill effects of pesticides. Farmers followed some precautionary measures to combat with the bad effect of insecticides on bees. As a result there was less mortality of bees. The experiments revealed that farmers should be aware of bee conservation and precautionary measures to combat with the bad effect of insecticides on bees.
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Bee mortality, Honey bee, Insecticide, Survey
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Joshi, N. C. and Joshi, P. C. (2010). Foraging behaviour of Apis spp. on apple flowers in a subtropical environment. New York Science Journal, 3: 71-76
Klein, A. M., Vaissiere, B. E., Cane, J. H., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Cunningham,S. A., Kremen, C. and Tscharntke, T. (2007). Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops. Proc. Biol. Sci., 274: 303-313
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Mader, E. and Adamson, N. L. (2012) Invertebrate conservation fact sheet: Organic -approved pesticides minimizing risks to bees. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation publication, Pp.1-6
May, E., Wilson, J. and Isaacs, J. (2015). Minimizing pesticide risk to bees in fruit crops. Extension Bulletin Michigan State University- E3245, Pp. 1-16
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McDonald, J. H. (2014). Handbook of Biological Statistics (3rd ed.) Saprky House Publishing, Baltimore, Maryland, 157-164
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Perez, J. L., Marino, H., Miguel, S., Llorente, J. and Meana, A. (2001). Easy ways to determine honey bee mortality using dead-bee traps. J. Apic. Res., 40: 25-28
Pongthep, A. (1990). Pesticides and beekeeping. In: Beekeeping in Asia. FAO publication. Pp. 121
Porrini, C., Sabatini, A. G., Giritti, S., Ghini, S., Medrzycki, P., Grillenzoni, F., Bortolotti, L., Gattavecchia, E. and Celli, G. (2003). Honey bees and bee products as monitors of the environmental contamination, Apicta,
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Radunz, L., Smith, E. S. C. and Darwin (1996). Pesticide-Hazards to honey bees. Agnote, 12: 1-4
Schen-bayo, F. and Goka, K. (2016). Impacts of pesticides on honey bees. In book: Beekeeping and Bee Conservation- Advances in Research, Chapter: 4, Publisher: InTech Open Science, Editors: Emerson D. Chambo, pp.77-97 DOI: 10.5772/62487
Steen J. M. V. and Dinter, A. (2007). A monitoring study to assess the acute mortality effects of indoxacarb on honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in flowering apple orchards. Pest Manag. Sci., 63: 1095-1099
Suhail, S., Guez, D. and Belzuness, L. P. (2001). Toxicity of imidacloprid and its metabolites in A. mellifera. In: Hazards of pesticides to bees, INRA publication, Paris, Pp. 121-126
Tan, K., Yang, S., Wang, Z., Radloff, S. E. and Oldroyd, B. P. (2012). Differences in foraging and broodnest temperature in the honey bees Apis cerana and A. mellifera. Apid¬ologie, 43: 618-623
VanEgelsdorp, D., Hayes, J., Underwood, R. M. and Pettis, J. (2008). A survey of honey bee colony losses in the U.S., fall 2007 to spring 2008. PLos ONE, 3: 1-6 e4071. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004071
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Monitoring on impact of insecticides on mortality of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in front of beehives. (2017). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 9(2), 905-911. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v9i2.1296
