Getting Back on Track

 

Good to be back to school! I am slowly catching up on things this week. 

My hypothesis and variables for my research have changed with my mentor’s guidance.

Honeybees are critical pollinators in farming environments where residues of glyphosate and AMPA are found (Farina et al., 2019). Residues of glyphosate and AMPA have been found in honey specimens from various places (Farina et al., 2019). “Its great versatility as an experimental model makes it an excellent proxy to evaluate the environmental impact of agrochemicals using current methodologies and procedures in environmental toxicology” (Farina et al., 2019). The question for the research is, does honeybee exposure to GBH lower the quality of honeybee colony matrices? The hypothesis for this research is that honeybee exposure to GBH causes honeybee colony matrices to degrade the quality of honeybee colony matrices. If honeybee exposure to GBH causes honeybee colony matrices, products of honeybee such as beebread, wax, and honey would have residues of glyphosate and AMPA present.

El Agrebi, N., Tosi, S., Wilmart, O., Scippo, M.-L., de Graaf, D. C., & Saegerman, C. (2020).

Honeybee and consumer’s exposure and risk characterisation to glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH) and its degradation product (AMPA): Residues in beebread, wax, and honey. Science of The Total Environment, 704, 135312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135312

 

Farina, W. M., Balbuena, M. S., Herbert, L. T., Mengoni Goñalons, C., & Vázquez, D. E.

(2019b). Effects of the Herbicide Glyphosate on Honey Bee Sensory and Cognitive Abilities: Individual Impairments with Implications for the Hive. Insects, 10(10), 354. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10100354

Johnson, R.. “Honey bee toxicology.” Annual review of entomology 60 (2015): 415-34 .