{"id":5312,"date":"2017-02-01T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:13:10","slug":"stingless-bees-are-more-vulnerable-to-pesticides-than-honeybees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/stingless-bees-are-more-vulnerable-to-pesticides-than-honeybees\/","title":{"rendered":"Stingless bees are more vulnerable to pesticides than honeybees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5313\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5313\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3851883556_1d3c0620dc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Study showed that stingless bees were more susceptible to insecticides than honeybees (A. Mellifera, in photo above) (Image by Thomas Bresson via Flickr CC 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3851883556_1d3c0620dc_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3851883556_1d3c0620dc_z-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Study showed that stingless bees were more susceptible to insecticides than honeybees (<em>A. Mellifera<\/em>, in photo above) <em>(Image by Thomas Bresson <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/6SnUMs\">via Flickr CC 2.0<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some chemicals used in agriculture can be a threat to key pollinators like bees, which can put entire plant species at risk of extinction. A new study tested the effect of insecticides, fungicides and their various combinations on two bee species: the Africanized honeybee and the stingless bee. Results showed that the stingless bees are more susceptible to insecticides than honeybees. Additionally, researchers tested a few combinations of agrichemicals to see what effect they had on each species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hudson V. V. Tom\u00e9, Gabryele S. Ramos, Micaele F. Ara\u00fajo, Weyder C. Santana, Gil R. Santos, Raul Narciso C. Guedes, Carlos D. Maciel, Philip L. Newland, Eug\u00eanio E. Oliveira<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eugenio Eduardo de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Email: <a href=\"mailto:oliveireugenio@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">oliveireugenio@gmail.com<\/a>, Tel: <a href=\"tel:+55%2031%203899-2691\" target=\"_blank\">+55 31 3899 2691<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/4\/1\/160866\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in<em> Royal Society Open Science<\/em> on January 18, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some chemicals used in agriculture can be a threat to key pollinators like bees, which can put entire plant species at risk of extinction. A new study tested the effect of insecticides, fungicides and their various combinations on two bee species: the Africanized honeybee and the stingless bee. Results showed that the stingless bees are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2375,2843,1847],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-bees","tag-honeybees","tag-pesticides"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3851883556_1d3c0620dc_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1nG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}