“…In our study, the lower dissipation of imidacloprid in the microcosm experiment compared to the acute toxicity tests might be due to UV light absorption by natural organic matter and suspended particulate matter in microcosms which decreases the photodegradation of imidacloprid (Lu et al, 2015). The dissipation was, however, found to be faster in the present sub-tropical study compared to earlier model and acute studies suggests that the dissipation is higher in the tropics than in temperate region due to higher temperature (28.2 ± 2 °C for microcosm experiment and 27.4 ± 0.6 °C for acute toxicity tests) and photodegradation during the experimental period (Laabs et al, 2007;Chai et al, 2009;Sánchez-Bayo and Hyne, 2011). In the present study, however, we found a buildup of imidacloprid concentrations in later applications in all treatment levels as compared to the first application in microcosm study.…”