An Attempt to Assess the Toxicity of Pesticide Formulations to Honeybees Foraging on Caged Apple Trees
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 13 (3) , 213-215
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1974.11099781
Abstract
Summary It was demonstrated that the toxicity of pesticides to foraging honeybees can be compared by spraying individual flowering apple trees, each enclosed in a cage that contains a small colony of bees. We confirmed that oxydemeton-methyl is toxic to foraging honeybees, and found that N-dichlorofluoro-methanesulphenyl-N'N'-dimethyl-N-p-tolylsulphamide (Bayer 5712a, proposed common name tolylfluanid) is much less toxic. Limitations of the method are discussed; larger-scale trials are desirable.Keywords
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