Hazards of pesticides to bees : 11th International Symposium of the ICP-BR Bee Protection Group ; Wageningen, (The Netherlands), November 2 - 4, 2011

Content

• Preface

  p. 5

  Kevan, Peter G.

• Introduction to the 11th Symposium of the ICPBR Bee Protection Group

  p. 10

  Oomen, Pieter A.

• Opening speech of the 11th Symposium

  p. 12

  Eck, Wim H. van

• EFSA and bees

  p. 14

  Luttik, Robert

• Bee health in Europe – Facts & figures. An Opera document

  p. 17

  Alix, Anne; Adams, Laurie; Brown, Mike; Campbell, Peter; Capri, Ettore; Kafka, Amalia; Kasiotis, Konstantinos; Machera, Kiki; Maus, Christian; Miles, Mark; Moraru, Petru; Navarro, Lisa; Pistorius, Jens; Thompson, Helen; Marchis, Alexandru

• Bee health in Europe – Facts & figures. An Opera document

  p. 17

  Alix, Anne; Adams, Laurie; Brown, Mike; Campbell, Peter; Capri, Ettore; Kafka, Amalia; Kasiotis, Konstantinos; Machera, Kiki; Maus, Christian; Miles, Mark; Moraru, Petru; Navarro, Lisa; Pistorius, Jens; Thompson, Helen; Marchis, Alexandru

• Pollinators, pesticides and agriculture: developing regulatory tools for the future

  p. 18

  Alix, Anne; Miles, Mark

• Exposure of honey bees and other pollinating species to pesticides

  p. 19

  Alix, Anne; Miles, Mark J.

• Assessing the comparative risk of plant protection products to honey bees, non-target arthropods and non-Apis bees

  p. 30

  Miles, Mark J.; Alix, Anne

• Risk assessment of pesticides on bees: evaluating risk coefficients for assessing acute and chronic toxicity

  p. 39

  Kievits, Janine; Lortsch, Jose-Anne; Mouret, Coralie

• Assessment of pesticides risk for bees: methods for PNEC measurements

  p. 45

  Kievits, Janine; Dermine, Martin; Lortsch, José-Anne; Mouret, Coralie; Simon-Delso, Noa

• Towards the comparative ecotoxicology of bees: the response-response relationship

  p. 55

  Cresswell, James E.; Laycock, Ian

• Neonicotinoids and bees: an overview on concentrations, side effects and risk assessment

  p. 61

  Blacquière, Tjeerd; Smagghe, Guy; Gestel, Cornelis A.M. van; Mommaerts, Veerle

• Effects of neonicotinoid dust from maize seed-dressing on honeybees

  p. 62

  Sgolastra, Fabio; Renzi, Teresa; Draghetti, Stefano; Sciò, Claudio; Medrzycki, Piotr; Lodesani, Marco; Maini, Stefano; Porrini, Claudio

• Risk mitigation measures for seed treatments using neonicotinoids

  p. 63

  Forster, Rolf

• About the recent re-evaluation of neonicotinoids regarding bee risks in the Netherlands

  p. 69

  Wassenberg, Jakoba; Lans, Martine

• Guttation and the risk for honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera L.): a worst case semi-field scenario in maize with special consideration of impact on bee brood and brood development

  p. 71

  Frommberger, Malte; Pistorius, Jens; Joachimsmeier, Ina; Schenke, Detlef

• Guttation and risk for honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera L.): Use of guttation drops by honey bees after migration of colonies - a field study

  p. 76

  Joachimsmeier, Ina; Pistorius, Jens; Heimbach, Udo; Schenke, Detlef; Kirchner, Wolfgang

• Thiamethoxam in the cultivation of hop – does it pose a threat to honey bees?

  p. 80

  Illies, Ingrid; Gottschalch, Verena; Wallner, Klaus; Engelhard, Bernhard; Pistorius, Jens; Bischoff, Gabriela

• Effects on honey bee colonies following a granular application of Santana® containing the active ingredient clothianidin in maize in 2010 and 2011

  p. 81

  Illies, Ingrid; Berg, Stefan; Pistorius, Jens; Bischoff, Gabriela

• Water collection by honey bees – How far will foragers fly to use water sources like guttation drops? A first distance trial using cereals and oilseed rape

  p. 82

  Joachimsmeier, Ina; Pistorius, Jens; Heimbach, Udo; Schenke, Detlef; Kirchner, Wolfgang

• Frequency and intensity of guttation events in different crops in Germany

  p. 87

  Joachimsmeier, Ina; Pistorius, Jens; Heimbach, Udo; Schenke, Detlef; Kirchner, Wolfgang; Zwerger, Peter

• Review on activities in Germany to assess the occurrence, residues and possible risk of guttation for honey bees

  p. 91

  Pistorius, Jens; Wallner, K.; Joachimsmeier, Ina; Reetz, J.; Schenke, Detlef; von der Ohe, W.; Illies, I.; Maus, C.; Block, T.; Becker, R.

• Orientating experiments on guttation fluid of seed treated maize (Zea mays L.) in relation to the water collecting behaviour of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)

  p. 92

  Wallner, Klaus; Wied, Hans-Martin; Reetz, Jana E.

• Efficacy of selected acaricides on Varroa destructor and evaluation of their environmental risks on Apis mellifera

  p. 93

  Loucif-Ayad, W.; Aribi, N.; Smagghe, G.; Soltani, N.

• Assessment of brood development and index calculations

  p. 94

  Giffard, Hervé; Dupont, Thierry

• Comparison between EPPO and CEB field methodologies

  p. 96

  Giffard, Hervé; Vergnet, Christine

• Scanning & analysing individual bee (Apis mellifera L.) behavior using RFID

  p. 99

  Praagh, Jacob P. van; Touw, Egbert

• Digital image analysis tool to improve the assessment and evaluation of brood development in higher tier honey bee studies

  p. 102

  Jeker, Lukas; Meschberger, Thomas; Candolfi, Marco; Magyar, Josef P.

• Introduction to the BEEBOOK, a manual of honeybee research methods

  p. 103

  Medrzycki, Piotr; Ellis, Jamie; Dietemann, Vincent; Neumann, Peter

• Influence of some experimental conditions on the results of laboratory toxicological tests on honeybees

  p. 104

  Medrzycki, Piotr; Sgolastra, Fabio; Bogo, Gherardo; Tosi, Simone; Venturi, Simone

• A new experimental method for studying trophallaxis as an additional determining factor in the effects of chemicals on foraging bees (Apis mellifera)

  p. 105

  Venturi, Simone; Medrzycki, Piotr; Bogo, Gherardo; Tosi, Simone; Sgolastra, Fabio; Lodesani, Marco

• Role of food quality in bee susceptibility to fipronil and clothianidin

  p. 106

  Tosi, Simone; Medrzycki, Piotr; Bogo, Gherardo; Bortolotti, Laura; Grillenzoni, Francesca; Forlani, Giuseppe

• Effects of spinosad on honey bees (Apis mellifera): Findings from over ten years of testing and commercial use

  p. 107

  Miles, Mark J.; Alix, Anne; Bourgouin, Chloe; Schmitzer, Stephan

• Effectiveness of method improvements to reduce variability of brood termination rate in honey bee brood studies under semi-field conditions

  p. 115

  Pistorius, Jens; Becker, R.; Lückmann, J.; Schur, A.; Barth, M.; Jeker, L.; Schmitzer, S.; von der Ohe, W.

• Statistical evaluation of regulatory honeybee trials - a pragmatic approach

  p. 121

  Becker, R.; Schmitzer, S.; Barth, M.; Bargen, H.; Kaatz, H.-H.; Ratte, H. T.; Schur, A.

• Monitoring effects of pesticides on pollinators – a review of methods and outcomes

  p. 123

  Alix, Anne; Cocoraju, Aurelien; Laporte, Jean-Michel; Maus, Christian; Miles, Mark; Simon, Noa; Thompson, Helen

• Bee poisoning incidents in the Pomurje region of Eastern Slovenia in 2011

  p. 124

  Geest, Bert van der

• Quantitation of neonicotinoid insecticide residues in experimentally poisoned honey bees

  p. 125

  Laurino, Daniela; Manino, Aulo; Patetta, Augusto; Romano, Andrea; Porporato, Marco

• Project ‘APENET: monitoring and research in apiculture’

  p. 133

  Lodesani, Marco; Medrzycki, Piotr; Bortolotti, Laura

• Dust drift during sowing of maize - effects on honey bees

  p. 134

  Georgiadis, Pablo Theodor; Pistorius, Jens; Heimbach, Udo; Stähler, Matthias; Schwabe, Kristin

• Dust drift during sowing of winter oil seed rape - effects on honey bees

  p. 140

  Georgiadis, Pablo Theodor; Pistorius, Jens; Heimbach, Udo; Stähler, Matthias; Schwabe, Kristin

• Do residues of imidacloprid in surface water cause honeybee colony losses?

  p. 141

  Visser, Adindah; Blacquière, Tjeerd

• Aspects determining the risk of pesticides to wild bees: risk profiles for focal crops on three continents

  p. 142

  Valk, Harold van der; Koomen, Irene; Nocelli, Roberta C.F.; Ribeiro, Márcia de F.; Freitas, Breno M.; Carvalho, Stephan; Kasina, John M.; Martins, Dino; Mutiso, Martha; Odhiambo, Christopher; Kinuthia, Wanja; Gikungu, Mary; Ngaruiya, Paul; Maina, Gladys; Kipyab, Pamela; Blacquière, Tjeerd; Steen, Jozef van der; Roessink, Ivo; Wassenberg, Jacoba; Gemmill-Herren, Barbara

• Losses of Brazilian bees: an overview of factors that may affect these pollinators

  p. 159

  Carvalho, Stephan; Roat, Thaisa; Pereira, Andrigo M.; Silva-Zacarin, Elaine; Nocelli, Roberta C.F.; Carvalho, César; Malaspina, Osmar

• Bees require protection for sustainable horticultural crops production in Kenya

  p. 167

  Kasina, Muo J.

• Side-effect of acetamiprid in adult Africanized honeybee

  p. 173

  Pereira, Andrigo M.; Nocelli, Roberta C. F.; Malaspina, Osmar; Bueno, Odair C.

• Determination of fipronil LD50 for the brazilian bee Melipona scutellaris

  p. 174

  Lourenço, Clara T.; Carvalho, Stephan M.; Malaspina, Osmar; Nocelli, Roberta C. F.

• Is the European honeybee (Apis mellifera mellifera) a good representative for other pollinator species?

  p. 179

  Steen, Jozef van der; Roessink, Ivo; Kasina, Muo; Gikungu, Mary; Nocelli, Roberta C.F.

• Effect of agrochemicals on the pattern of visitation of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in melon (Cucumis melo) flowers in Brazilian Northeast

  p. 180

  Siqueira, Kátia M.M.; Ribeiro, Márcia de F.; Kiill, Lucia H.P.; Coelho, Márcia S.; Araújo, Diêgo C.S.; Gama, Diego R.S.; Lima, Jr. Ivan O.

• Assessment of lethal and sublethal effects by spinetoram on Bombus terrestris

  p. 184

  Mommaerts, Veerle; Besard, Linde; Abdu-Alla, Gamal; Smagghe, Guy

• Multiplex PCR detection of slowly-evolving trypanosomatids and neogregarines in bumblebees using broad-range primers

  p. 185

  Meeus, Ivan; Graaf, Dirk de; Jans, Kris; Smagghe, Guy

• Detection of viral replication in bees

  p. 186

  Meeus, Ivan; Graaf, Dirk de; Smagghe, Guy

• Pesticide sprays compromise pollination and biocontrol services on strawberry

  p. 187

  Hokkanen, Heikki; Menzler-Hokkanen, Ingeborg; Mustalahti, Aino-Maija

• Laboratory miniature dispenser-bioassay to evaluate the compatibility of powdercompounds in the entomovectoring with Bombus terrestris

  p. 188

  Mommaerts, Veerle; Put, Kurt; Vandeven, Jessica; Smagghe, Guy

• Discussing protection goals for bees – an EFSA approach

  p. 189

  Luttik, Robert

• ICPBR-Working Group Risks posed by dusts: overview of the area and recommendations

  p. 191

  Forster, Rolf; Giffard, Hervé; Heimbach, Udo; Laporte, Jean-Michel; Lückmann, Johannes; Nikolakis, Alexander; Pistorius, Jens; Vergnet, Christine

• Assessment of risks to honey bees posed by guttation

  p. 199

  Pistorius, Jens; Brobyn, Tricia; Campbell, Peter; Forster, Rolf; Lortsch, Jose-Anne; Marolleau, Franck; Maus, Christian; Lückmann, Johannes; Suzuki, Hiroyuki; Wallner, Klaus; Becker, Roland

• Working Group – Acceptability of effects in the field

  p. 209

  Lewis, Gavin

• Acceptable levels of control and toxic reference mortality from semi-field and field tests - working group 2011 report summary

  p. 212

  Vergnet, Christine

• Working Group - Risk to honey bee larvae

  p. 213

  Becker, Roland

• Summary of discussions regarding the Working Group reports

  p. 215

  Thompson, Helen