Comparative Toxicity Effects of Insecticide Residues on Honeybee, Apis cerana indica Foraging on Abelmoschus esculentus (Malvaceae)
2001
Anita, M. (Century Foundation, Bangalore, India)
Pesticides have been widely used to control various pests and diseases in modern agriculture. In the process, however, non-target beneficial insects such as honeybees have been destroyed frequently. Honeybees come in contact with insecticides deposited on plants and get poisoned by feeding on the contaminated pollen. In the present study, the foragers of the Indian honeybee, A. cerana indica, were exposed artificially to the residues of several insecticides sprayed on the flowers of Abelmoschus esculentus to predict the damage of honeybees in the field.
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