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Abstract Title:

Time-to-death approach to reveal chronic and cumulative toxicity of a fungicide for honeybees not revealed with the standard ten-day test.

Abstract Source:

Sci Rep. 2018 May 8 ;8(1):7241. Epub 2018 May 8. PMID: 29739960

Abstract Author(s):

Noa Simon-Delso, Gilles San Martin, Etienne Bruneau, Louis Hautier

Article Affiliation:

Noa Simon-Delso

Abstract:

Synthetic fungicides are pesticides widely used in agriculture to control phytopathogenic fungi. The systemicity, persistency and intense application of some of these fungicides, such as boscalid, leads to long periods of exposure for honeybees via contaminated water, pollen and nectar. We exposed adult honeybees in the lab to food contaminated with boscalid for 33 days instead of the standard 10-day test. Most of the toxic effects were observed after 10 days. The median time to death (LT) ranged from 24.9 days (lowest concentration) to 7.1 days (highest concentration) and was significantly shorter in all cases than with the control (32.0 days). The concentration and dietary doses of boscalid inducing 50% mortality (LCand LDD, respectively) decreased strongly with the time of exposure: LC = 14,729 and 1,174 mg/l and LDD = 0.318 and 0.0301 mg beedayat days 8 and 25, respectively. We found evidence of reinforced toxicity when exposure is prolonged, but with an unusual pattern: no cumulative toxicity is observed until 17-18 days, when a point of inflexion appears that suggests a reduced capacity of bees to deal with the toxicant. Our results show the importance of time-to-death experiments rather than fixed-duration studies for evaluating chronic toxicity.

Study Type : Insect Study
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Additional Keywords : Honeybee : CK(94) : AC(39)
Problem Substances : Pesticides : CK(2214) : AC(473)

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