Agricultural pesticide residues in honey and wax combs from Southeastern, Central and Northeastern Mexico

Valdovinos-Flores, Cesar; Alcantar-Rosales, Víctor-Manuel; Gaspar-Ramírez, Octavio; Saldaña-Loza, Luz María; Dorantes-Ugalde, José Antonio

doi:10.1080/00218839.2017.1340798

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“…Different scientific documents reported that pesticide residues(contamination) in honey, wax, bee brood, pollen, and bees in several countries (Chauzat et al 2006;Martel et al 2007;Frazier et al 2008;Mullin et al 2010;Wiest et al 2011;Ostiguy and Eitzer 2014;Porrini et al 2016;Amulen et al 2017;Valdovinos-Flores et al 2017).…”

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Pesticides use, practice and its effect on honeybee in Ethiopia: a review

Fikadu

2020

Int J Trop Insect Sci

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Honeybees play an essential economic role in the pollination of crops. Farmers were buying, storing, and use pesticides on cultivated plants with no or little consideration of the effect on honeybees. In Ethiopia, pesticide poisoning of honeybees has increased from time to time, and beekeepers also lose their colonies due to unwise use and improper practice of pesticides. Ethiopia has developed a legal framework on pesticide registration, distribution, and use. But regulations are not strictly implemented by the farmers, and it needs enforcement. Farmers use pesticides on crops with no or little consideration of their effect on honeybees, also the use of pesticides is harmful to pollination service, behavior, communication, forage resource, poisoning, and contaminated hive products. The Effective communication between beekeepers and crop growers is important because spraying pesticides is required to minimize the impact of pesticides on honeybees. The present review should focus on the effects of pesticide use and the means of reducing its impact on honeybee colonies.

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Pesticides use, practice and its effect on honeybee in Ethiopia: a review

Fikadu

2020

Int J Trop Insect Sci

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“…It is not uncommon to find honey bee products like honey, pollen and wax, from colonies located in agricultural landscapes, contaminated with pesticides [ 71 , 72 , 73 ] in countries like Argentina [ 74 ], Belgium [ 75 ], Brazil [ 76 ], China [ 77 ], Colombia [ 60 ], Egypt [ 78 ], France [ 61 ], Germany [ 79 ], Greece [ 80 ], India [ 81 ], Italy [ 8 ], Mexico [ 82 ], Poland [ 83 ], Portugal and Spain [ 84 ], Turkey [ 85 ] and USA [ 73 ]. However, given the seasonal variation in the agricultural activities related to insecticide application, climatic factors, among others, not all samples show evidence of contact with such chemicals; for instance, Balayiannis and Balayiannis [ 86 ] found organophosphorous insecticides in 56% of their honey samples; Mullin et al [ 73 ], Pohorecka et al [ 87 ] and Panseri [ 88 ] reported that 60%, 50% and 94% of their samples (wax, pollen, honey and bee workers) had residues of at least two pesticides.…”

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Organochlorine Pesticides in Honey and Pollen Samples from Managed Colonies of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus and the Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona mexicana Guérin from Southern, Mexico

Ruíz-Toledo

Vandame

Castro-Chan

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In this paper, we show the results of investigating the presence of organochlorine pesticides in honey and pollen samples from managed colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. and of the stingless bee Scaptotrigona mexicana Guérin. Three colonies of each species were moved into each of two sites. Three samples of pollen and three samples of honey were collected from each colony: the first collection occurred at the beginning of the study and the following ones at every six months during a year. Thus the total number of samples collected was 36 for honey (18 for A. mellifera and 18 for S. mexicana) and 36 for pollen (18 for A. mellifera and 18 for S. mexicana). We found that 88.44% and 93.33% of honey samples, and 22.22% and 100% of pollen samples of S. mexicana and A. mellifera, respectively, resulted positive to at least one organochlorine. The most abundant pesticides were Heptaclor (44% of the samples), γ-HCH (36%), DDT (19%), Endrin (18%) and DDE (11%). Despite the short foraging range of S. mexicana, the number of pesticides quantified in the honey samples was similar to that of A. mellifera. Paradoxically we found a small number of organochlorines in pollen samples of S. mexicana in comparison to A. mellifera, perhaps indicating a low abundance of pollen sources within the foraging range of this species.

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“…Greece [49], India [50], Mexico [51], Poland [52], Portugal and Spain [53], Turkey [54] y USA [41]. However, given the seasonal variation in the agricultural activities related to insecticide application, climatic factors, among others, not all samples show evidence of contact with such chemicals [55]; for instance, Balayiannis and Balayiannis [56] found organophosphorous insecticides in 56% of their honey samples; Mullin et al [41], Pohorecka et al [57] and Panseri [58] reported that 60%, 50% and 94% of their samples (wax, pollen, honey and bee workers) had residues of at least two pesticides.…”

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Organochlorine Pesticides in Honey and Pollen Samples from Managed Colonies of the Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera</em> Linnaeus and the Stingless Bee <em>Scaptotrigona mexicana</em> Guérin from Southern, Mexico

Ruíz-Toledo

Vandame

Castro-Chan

et al. 2018

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In this paper we show the results of investigating the presence of organochlorine pesticides in honey and pollen samples from managed colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. and of the stingless bee Scaptotrigona Mexicana Guérin. We found that 88.44% and 93.33% of honey samples, and 22.22% and 100% of pollen samples of S. mexicana and A. mellifera, respectively, resulted positive to at least one organochlorine. The most abundant pesticides were DDE, DDT, Endrin and heptaclor. Despite the low foraging range of S. mexicana the number of pesticides detected in the honey samples was similar to that of A. mellifera. Paradoxically we a found a small number of organochlorines in pollen samples of S. mexicana, perhaps indicating a rapid turnover of this material as compared to A. mellifera.

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Agricultural pesticide residues in honey and wax combs from Southeastern, Central and Northeastern Mexico

Cited by 36 publications

References 43 publications

Pesticides use, practice and its effect on honeybee in Ethiopia: a review

Pesticides use, practice and its effect on honeybee in Ethiopia: a review

Organochlorine Pesticides in Honey and Pollen Samples from Managed Colonies of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus and the Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona mexicana Guérin from Southern, Mexico

Organochlorine Pesticides in Honey and Pollen Samples from Managed Colonies of the Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera</em> Linnaeus and the Stingless Bee <em>Scaptotrigona mexicana</em> Guérin from Southern, Mexico

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Agricultural pesticide residues in honey and wax combs from Southeastern, Central and Northeastern Mexico

Cited by 36 publications

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Pesticides use, practice and its effect on honeybee in Ethiopia: a review

Pesticides use, practice and its effect on honeybee in Ethiopia: a review

Organochlorine Pesticides in Honey and Pollen Samples from Managed Colonies of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus and the Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona mexicana Guérin from Southern, Mexico

Organochlorine Pesticides in Honey and Pollen Samples from Managed Colonies of the Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera</em> Linnaeus and the Stingless Bee <em>Scaptotrigona mexicana</em> Gu&eacute;rin from Southern, Mexico

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Organochlorine Pesticides in Honey and Pollen Samples from Managed Colonies of the Honey Bee <em>Apis mellifera</em> Linnaeus and the Stingless Bee <em>Scaptotrigona mexicana</em> Guérin from Southern, Mexico