Neonicotinoid Insecticides Studies
The following is a list of peer reviewed studies that have found health and/or environmental harm from neonicotinoid insecticides:
Bryden, J., Gill, R. J., Mitton, R. A., Raine, N. E., & Jansen, V. A. (2013). Chronic sublethal stress causes bee colony failure. Ecology letters , 16 (12), 1463-1469. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12188/abstract
Byrne, F. J., Visscher, P. K., Leimkuehler, B., Fischer, D., Grafton-Cardwell, E. E. and Morse, J. G. (2014), Determination of exposure levels of honey bees foraging on flowers of mature citrus trees previously treated with imidacloprid. Pest. Manag. Sci., 70: 470–482. doi: 10.1002/ps.3596 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.3596/abstract
Carrillo, M. P., Bovi, T. D. S., Negrão, A. F., & Orsi, R. D. O. (2013). Influence of agrochemicals fipronil and imidacloprid on the learning behavior of Apis mellifera L. honeybees. Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences , 35 (4), 431-434. http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=303128707013#
Chensheng, L. U., Warchol, K. M., & Callahan, R. A. (2014). Sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired honey bees winterization before proceeding to colony collapse disorder. Bulletin of Insectology , 67 (1), 125-130. http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20143221269.html;jsessionid=7E5BA16AA3B1EF35E5907369E6CF05ED
Decourtye, A., Lacassie, E., & Pham‐Delègue, M. H. (2003). Learning performances of honeybees (Apis mellifera L) are differentially affected by imidacloprid according to the season. Pest management science , 59 (3), 269-278. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12639043
Derecka K, Blythe MJ, Malla S, Genereux DP, Guffanti A, et al. (2013) Transient Exposure to Low Levels of Insecticide Affects Metabolic Networks of Honeybee Larvae. PLoS ONE 8(7): e68191. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068191
Desneux, N., Decourtye, A., & Delpuech, J. M. (2007). The sublethal effects of pesticides on beneficial arthropods. Annu. Rev. Entomol. , 52 , 81-106. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16842032
Di Prisco, Gennaro, Valeria Cavaliere, Desiderato Annoscia, Paola Varricchio, Emilio Caprio, Francesco Nazzi, Giuseppe Gargiulo, and Francesco Pennacchio. (2013) Neonicotinoid clothianidin adversely affects insect immunity and promotes replication of a viral pathogen in honey bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 46 (2013): 18466-18471. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/46/18466.abstract
Douglas, M. R., Rohr, J. R., Tooker, J. F. (2015), EDITOR’S CHOICE: Neonicotinoid insecticide travels through a soil food chain, disrupting biological control of non-target pests and decreasing soya bean yield. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52: 250–260. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12372 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12372/full
Eiri, D. M., & Nieh, J. C. (2012). A nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist affects honey bee sucrose responsiveness and decreases waggle dancing. The Journal of experimental biology , 215 (12), 2022-2029. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/12/2022.abstract
Gibbons, D., Morrissey, C., & Mineau, P. (2015). A review of the direct and indirect effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on vertebrate wildlife. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(1), 103-118. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-014-3180-5#page-1
Gill, R. J., Ramos-Rodriguez, O., & Raine, N. E. (2012). Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual-and colony-level traits in bees. Nature , 491 (7422), 105-108. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v491/n7422/full/nature11585.html
Gill, R. J., Raine, N. E. (2014), Chronic impairment of bumblebee natural foraging behaviour induced by sublethal pesticide exposure. Functional Ecology, 28: 1459–1471. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12292 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12292/abstract
Girolami, Vincenzo, L. Mazzon, A. Squartini, N. Mori, M. Marzaro, A. di Bernardo, M. Greatti, C. Giorio, and A. Tapparo. (2009) Translocation of neonicotinoid insecticides from coated seeds to seedling guttation drops: a novel way of intoxication for bees.” Journal of economic entomology 102, no. 5 (2009): 1808-1815. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19886445
Goulson, D. (2013), REVIEW: An overview of the environmental risks posed by neonicotinoid insecticides. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50: 977–987. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12111 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12111/abstract;jsessionid=7CDB0ED081F4FB728B65729A9EEA676F.d01t01
Dave Goulson (2015) Neonicotinoids impact bumblebee colony fitness in the field; a reanalysis of the UK’s Food & Environment Research Agency 2012 experiment. PeerJ 3:e854; DOI 10.7717/peerj.854 https://peerj.com/articles/854.pdf
Hatjina, F., Papaefthimiou, C., Charistos, L., Dogaroglu, T., Bouga, M., Emmanouil, C., & Arnold, G. (2013). Sublethal doses of imidacloprid decreased size of hypopharyngeal glands and respiratory rhythm of honeybees in vivo.Apidologie , 44 (4), 467-480. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-013-0199-4
Henry, M., Beguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J. F., Aupinel, P., … & Decourtye, A. (2012). A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees. Science , 336 (6079), 348-350. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6079/348.abstract
Krupke CH, Hunt GJ, Eitzer BD, Andino G, Given K (2012) Multiple Routes of Pesticide Exposure for Honey Bees Living Near Agricultural Fields. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29268. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029268
Laurino, D., Porporato, M., Patetta, A., & Manino, A. (2011). Toxicity of neonicotinoid insecticides to honey bees: laboratory tests. Bull Insectol , 64 (1), 107-113. http://www.bulletinofinsectology.org/pdfarticles/vol64-2011-107-113laurino.pdf
Matsumoto, T., & CANALI, S. (2013). Reduction in homing flights in the honey bee Apis mellifera after a sublethal dose of neonicotinoid insecticides. Bulletin of Insectology , 66 , 1. http://www.bulletinofinsectology.org/pdfarticles/vol66-2013-001-009matsumoto.pdf
Moffat, Christopher, Joao Goncalves Pacheco, Sheila Sharp, Andrew J. Samson, Karen A. Bollan, Jeffrey Huang, Stephen T. Buckland, and Christopher N. Connolly. (2015) Chronic exposure to neonicotinoids increases neuronal vulnerability to mitochondrial dysfunction in the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris).” The FASEB Journal (2015): fj-14. http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2015/01/28/fj.14-267179.abstract?sid=1a34c0c7-9f71-4c7f-9314-a07c1df8f4ce
Mommaerts, V., Reynders, S., Boulet, J., Besard, L., Sterk, G., & Smagghe, G. (2010). Risk assessment for side-effects of neonicotinoids against bumblebees with and without impairing foraging behavior. Ecotoxicology , 19 (1), 207-215. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19757031
Palmer, M. J., Moffat, C., Saranzewa, N., Harvey, J., Wright, G. A., & Connolly, C. N. (2013). Cholinergic pesticides cause mushroom body neuronal inactivation in honeybees. Nature Communications , 4 , 1634. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n3/abs/ncomms2648.html
Jacob R. Pecenka, Jonathan G. Lundgren (2015) Non-target effects of clothianidin on monarch butterflies. The Science of Nature, April 2015, 102:19 http://www.bioscienceresource.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Pecenka-and-Lundgren-2015-Early-On-line.pdf
Rundlöf, Maj, Georg KS Andersson, Riccardo Bommarco, Ingemar Fries, Veronica Hederström, Lina Herbertsson, Ove Jonsson et al.(2015) Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees. Nature 521, no. 7550 : 77-80. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7550/abs/nature14420.html
Sanchez-Bayo F, Goka K (2014) Pesticide Residues and Bees – A Risk Assessment. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94482. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094482
Schneider CW, Tautz J, Grünewald B, Fuchs S (2012) RFID Tracking of Sublethal Effects of Two Neonicotinoid Insecticides on the Foraging Behavior of Apis mellifera . PLoS ONE 7(1): e30023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030023
Tapparo, A., Marton, D., Giorio, C., Zanella, A., Soldà, L., Marzaro, M., … & Girolami, V. (2012). Assessment of the environmental exposure of honeybees to particulate matter containing neonicotinoid insecticides coming from corn coated seeds. Environmental science & technology , 46 (5), 2592-2599. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es2035152?journalCode=esthag
Tremolada, P., Mazzoleni, M., Saliu, F., Colombo, M., & Vighi, M. (2010). Field trial for evaluating the effects on honeybees of corn sown using Cruiser® and Celest xl® treated seeds. Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology , 85 (3), 229-234. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20658226
Whitehorn, P. R., O’Connor, S., Wackers, F. L., & Goulson, D. (2012). Neonicotinoid pesticide reduces bumble bee colony growth and queen production. Science , 336 (6079), 351-352. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6079/351.abstract
Williamson, S. M., & Wright, G. A. (2013). Exposure to multiple cholinergic pesticides impairs olfactory learning and memory in honeybees. The Journal of experimental biology , 216 (10), 1799-1807. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/10/1799
Wu JY, Anelli CM, Sheppard WS (2011) Sub-Lethal Effects of Pesticide Residues in Brood Comb on Worker Honey Bee (Apis mellifera ) Development and Longevity. PLoS ONE 6(2): e14720. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014720