Honeybee broods and glyphosate

 

This is another article about honeybee broods and glyphosate. The first experiment was that honeybees and their products are given in the environment with glyphosate applied to flowers. And then they measured glyphosate residue in the pollen and nectar brough by honeybees and in larvae. The second experiment was to feed honeybee larvae and pupae with “treated sucrose directly” which can cause “worst-case exposure scenarios”.

From the first experiment the glyphosate did not affect honeybees and their products considerably. From the second experiment, adult honeybees which were treated with glyphosate did not show biological fatality.

 These results are different from what I have found so far. But these experiments aimed on the worst-case scenario, which might seem to be less influential or toxic on organisms. As time goes by, if this toxic material keeps accumulating in the body for a long time, the result can be more influential.

Thompson, H. M., Levine, S. L., Doering, J., Norman, S., Manson, P., Sutton, P., & von Mérey, G. (2014). Evaluating exposure and potential effects on honeybee brood (Apis mellifera) development using glyphosate as an example. Integrated environmental assessment and management, 10(3), 463–470. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.1529

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