2015
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1821
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A restatement of recent advances in the natural science evidence base concerning neonicotinoid insecticides and insect pollinators

Abstract: A summary is provided of recent advances in the natural science evidence base concerning the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on insect pollinators in a format (a ‘restatement') intended to be accessible to informed but not expert policymakers and stakeholders. Important new studies have been published since our recent review of this field (Godfray et al. 2014 Proc. R. Soc. B 281, 20140558. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.055810.1098/rspb.2014.0558)) and the subject continues to be an area of very active research … Show more

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“…Declines in bee numbers, particularly honeybees, are often attributed to a group of pesticides called neonicotinoids (neonics), considered to be harmful and potentially lethal to bees [74,75]. Growing evidence for their toxic impacts on bee populations range from reduced queen production [73], disorientation [76], reduced immunity [77], and mortality [76,78].…”
Section: Searching For a Smoking Gun For Pollinator Declinesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Declines in bee numbers, particularly honeybees, are often attributed to a group of pesticides called neonicotinoids (neonics), considered to be harmful and potentially lethal to bees [74,75]. Growing evidence for their toxic impacts on bee populations range from reduced queen production [73], disorientation [76], reduced immunity [77], and mortality [76,78].…”
Section: Searching For a Smoking Gun For Pollinator Declinesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among pesticides, neonicotinoids have risen to be one of the most widely used insecticide classes. Given their persistence in the environment, uptake and systemic distribution by plants, and high toxicity to bees, neonicotinoids have received heightened attention by the general public, and both the scientific and regulatory communities, for their possible role in bee colony losses (White House, 2015;US Environmental Protection Agency, 2016;Godfray et al, 2015;European Food Safety Authority, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, many of these have focussed solely on bees [27,44,46,59] or specific NNIs [44] and the majority have not been conducted using systematic methodology [26,28,46,54,58,59]. Furthermore, few reviews have extracted meta-data from studies to enable an assessment to be made of the robustness and relevance of the evidence and the one review that has addressed this issue focused purely on bees [44].…”
Section: Topic Identificationmentioning
confidence: 99%