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Is there a risk to honeybees from use of thiamethoxam as a sugar beet seed treatment?

  • Autor/in: Thompson, H., S. Vaughan, E. Ladewig, A.-K. Mahlein, C. Kenter
  • Jahr: 2022
  • Zeitschrift: Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) 18(3)
  • Seite/n: 709-721, doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4498
  • Stichworte: honeybee; seed treatment; risk assessment; thiamethoxam; sugar beet

Abstract

The ban imposed by the European Union on the use of neonicotinoids as sugar beet seed treatments was on the basis of the exposure of bees to residues of neonicotinoids in pollen and nectar of succeeding crops. To address this concern, residues of thiamethoxam (TMX) and clothianidin (CTD) were analysed in soil collected from fields planted in at least the previous year with thiamethoxam-treated sugar beet seed. This soil monitoring program was conducted at 94 sites across Germany in two individual years. In addition, a succeeding crop study assessed residues in soil, in guttation fluid, pollen and nectar sampled from untreated succeeding crops planted in the season after thiamethoxam seed-treated sugar beet at 8 field sites across 5 countries. The overall mean residues observed in soil monitoring were 8.0 ± 0.5 µg TMX + CTD /kg in the season after use of treated sugar beet seed. Residue values decreased with increasing time interval between the latest thiamethoxam or clothianidin application prior to the sugar beet drilling and with lower application frequency. Residues were detected in guttation fluid (2.0 - 37.7 µg TMX/ L), however, risk to pollinators from this route of exposure are likely to be low based on the reported levels of consumption. Residues of thiamethoxam and clothianidin in pollen and nectar sampled from the succeeding crops were detected at or below the LOQ (0.5-1 µg a.i./kg) in 86.7% of pollen and 98.6% of nectar samples and, unlike guttation fluid residues, were not correlated with measured soil residues. Residues in pollen and nectar are lower than reported sublethal adverse effect concentrations in studies with honeybee and bumble bee individuals and colonies fed only thiamethoxam treated sucrose and are lower than those reported to result in no effects in honeybees, bumble bees and solitary bees foraging on seed-treated crops.
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