Bee studies stir up pesticide debate

Cressey, Daniel

doi:10.1038/520416a

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“…While these data demonstrated long-term insecticidal effect of imidacloprid treatment [108], it raises public concern of the potential environmental impact due to its persistence post application [106]. Depending on the application methods used, imidacloprid can be present in detectable concentrations in leaves, vascular fluids, pollen and soils, which could unintentionally target beneficial arthropods in the forest; accelerate declines in populations of honey bees and other pollinators which are a vital part to our food security [109]; decrease the abundance and richness of soil-dwelling organisms; and cause unintentional stress of local microclimates [2,99,108,110,111,112]. …”

Section: Potential Hwa Control and Management Optionsmentioning

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A Little Bug with a Big Bite: Impact of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestations on Forest Ecosystems in the Eastern USA and Potential Control Strategies

Letheren

Hill

Salie

et al. 2017

IJERPH

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Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae Annand, HWA) remains the single greatest threat to the health and sustainability of hemlock in the eastern USA. The loss of hemlock trees leads to further negative impacts on the diversity and stability of ecosystems in the eastern part of North America. It is, therefore, urgent to develop effective control measures to reduce HWA populations and promote overall hemlock health. Currently available individual and integrated approaches should continue to be evaluated in the laboratory and in the field along with the development of other new and innovative methods.

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A Little Bug with a Big Bite: Impact of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestations on Forest Ecosystems in the Eastern USA and Potential Control Strategies

Letheren

Hill

Salie

et al. 2017

IJERPH

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“…On the other hand, the attribution of blame can be placed on neonicotinoids. A very public, sometimes acrimonious debate has arisen between those who hold neonicotinoids accountable and those that view pests as the major cause of decline (Cressey ; Eisenstein ). The latter group was accused of a research conflict of interest when it was uncovered their research was funded by corporate entities affiliated with the manufacture of neonicotinoids.…”

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Honey Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder: A Pluralistic Reframing

Watson

Stallins

2016

Geography Compass

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Scientific narratives surrounding colony collapse disorder (CCD) are often played against one another. However, oppositional knowledge politics do not neatly segregate the materiality and causal properties of the ecological phenomena they represent. Thus the challenge with CCD is not just to describe the partisan character of how knowledge about it is socially produced. It is also about how to integrate these politics through their less antagonistic material ecologies. We review three dominant discourses underlying CCD and honey bee decline and present a synthesis that conveys how their socially embedded perceptions about ecological causality are more compatible. We invoke a theoretical framework from complexity theory to demonstrate how multiple kinds of ecological causality, from the identifiable and addressable to the more emergent and unpredictable, can align under conflicting policy positions. We argue that this continuum of ecological explanations is a more conciliatory framework for responding to CCD. It provides an alternative to the antagonistic politics that tend to reify and defend either a restrictive search for a singular cause, a paralyzing documentation of all possible permutations of CCD, or a return to a utopian agrarian past. Relating how ecological knowledge is socially produced can illuminate stakeholder positions and strategies. But it is also constructive to map out how the ecological suppositions underlying them relate and inform one under.

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GMOs: Non-health Issues

Hicks¹,

Millstein²

2016

Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics

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Bee studies stir up pesticide debate

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

A Little Bug with a Big Bite: Impact of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestations on Forest Ecosystems in the Eastern USA and Potential Control Strategies

A Little Bug with a Big Bite: Impact of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestations on Forest Ecosystems in the Eastern USA and Potential Control Strategies

Honey Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder: A Pluralistic Reframing

GMOs: Non-health Issues

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