Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are important pollinators for natural and cultivated species. Due to their high sensitivity to stressors, they are also valuable indicators of environmental changes and agricultural management practices. In this study, we compared the performance and incidence of pesticid...
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| author | Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina Chacoff, Natacha Paola Aragón, Roxana Sosa, Alexis Lionel Aparicio, Virginia Carolina Ayup, María Marta Galindo Cardona, Alberto |
| author_browse | Aparicio, Virginia Carolina Aragón, Roxana Ayup, María Marta Chacoff, Natacha Paola Galindo Cardona, Alberto Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina Sosa, Alexis Lionel |
| author_facet | Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina Chacoff, Natacha Paola Aragón, Roxana Sosa, Alexis Lionel Aparicio, Virginia Carolina Ayup, María Marta Galindo Cardona, Alberto |
| author_sort | Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina |
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| description | Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are important pollinators for natural and cultivated species. Due to their high sensitivity to stressors, they are also valuable indicators of environmental changes and agricultural management practices. In this study, we compared the performance and incidence of pesticides over sentinel hives within forest remnants with those within linear forest fragments (LFF) surrounded by soybean fields under conventional management. Sentinel hives in LFF showed some signs of deterioration, such as colony collapse, low numbers of brood frames, and pesticide occurrences, but honey production and the number of adult bees were similar to hives in the forest. Soybean pollen was scarce in honey and absent in bee bread, suggesting that bees may be relying more on wild plant species. We detected 5 pesticides (azoxystrobin, carbendazim, chlorpyrifos, imidacloprid, and coumaphos) in hives both at forests and LFF in pollen, bee bodies, and wax; pesticides in honey were detected in old sentinel hives (2 yr of exposition to agricultural conventional management). Only 2 of the 5 pesticides were applied in one of the farms under study, highlighting the importance of considering landscape-scale agricultural management. Our results indicate that conventional agriculture of soybean/maize primarily affected the performance of beehives, and pesticides were detected in honey only after long exposure to hives. Beekeeping in soybean fields in the Chaco could be feasible if cautions were followed, such as the conservation of forest fragments and key plant species, appropriate pesticide schedules, coordinated applications among farms, and linear forest remnants improvements. |
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| spelling | INTA215362025-03-05T13:02:01Z Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina Chacoff, Natacha Paola Aragón, Roxana Sosa, Alexis Lionel Aparicio, Virginia Carolina Ayup, María Marta Galindo Cardona, Alberto Soja Abeja Melífera Plaguicidas Medio Ambiente Soybeans Apis mellifera Honey Bees Pesticides Environment Región Chaqueña, Argentina Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are important pollinators for natural and cultivated species. Due to their high sensitivity to stressors, they are also valuable indicators of environmental changes and agricultural management practices. In this study, we compared the performance and incidence of pesticides over sentinel hives within forest remnants with those within linear forest fragments (LFF) surrounded by soybean fields under conventional management. Sentinel hives in LFF showed some signs of deterioration, such as colony collapse, low numbers of brood frames, and pesticide occurrences, but honey production and the number of adult bees were similar to hives in the forest. Soybean pollen was scarce in honey and absent in bee bread, suggesting that bees may be relying more on wild plant species. We detected 5 pesticides (azoxystrobin, carbendazim, chlorpyrifos, imidacloprid, and coumaphos) in hives both at forests and LFF in pollen, bee bodies, and wax; pesticides in honey were detected in old sentinel hives (2 yr of exposition to agricultural conventional management). Only 2 of the 5 pesticides were applied in one of the farms under study, highlighting the importance of considering landscape-scale agricultural management. Our results indicate that conventional agriculture of soybean/maize primarily affected the performance of beehives, and pesticides were detected in honey only after long exposure to hives. Beekeeping in soybean fields in the Chaco could be feasible if cautions were followed, such as the conservation of forest fragments and key plant species, appropriate pesticide schedules, coordinated applications among farms, and linear forest remnants improvements. EEA Concordia Fil: Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER); Argentina Fil: Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER); Argentina Fil: Chacoff, Natacha. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina Fil: Chacoff, Natacha. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina Fil: Chacoff, Natacha. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Argentina Fil: Aragón, Roxana. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina Fil: Aragón, Roxana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina Fil: Aragón, Roxana. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Argentina Fil: Sosa, Alexis Lionel. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Concordia; Argentina Fil: Aparicio, Virginia Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina Fil: Aparicio, Virginia Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce. Instituto de Innovación para la Producción Agropecuaria y el Desarrollo Sostenible; Argentina Fil: Aparicio, Virginia Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Innovación para la Producción Agropecuaria y el Desarrollo Sostenible; Argentina Fil: Ayup, María Marta. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Argentina Fil: Galindo Cardona, Alberto. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER); Argentina Fil: Galindo Cardona, Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER); Argentina 2025-03-05T12:56:40Z 2025-03-05T12:56:40Z 2025-02 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/21536 https://academic.oup.com/jee/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jee/toaf002/8042719 0022-0493 1938-291X https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toaf002 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Oxford University Press Journal of Economic Entomology : toaf002. (Published: 26 February 2025) |
| spellingShingle | Soja Abeja Melífera Plaguicidas Medio Ambiente Soybeans Apis mellifera Honey Bees Pesticides Environment Región Chaqueña, Argentina Monmany-Garzia, Ana Carolina Chacoff, Natacha Paola Aragón, Roxana Sosa, Alexis Lionel Aparicio, Virginia Carolina Ayup, María Marta Galindo Cardona, Alberto Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion |
| title | Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion |
| title_full | Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion |
| title_fullStr | Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion |
| title_short | Effects of soybean fields on the health of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Chaco ecoregion |
| title_sort | effects of soybean fields on the health of apis mellifera hymenoptera apidae in the chaco ecoregion |
| topic | Soja Abeja Melífera Plaguicidas Medio Ambiente Soybeans Apis mellifera Honey Bees Pesticides Environment Región Chaqueña, Argentina |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/21536 https://academic.oup.com/jee/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jee/toaf002/8042719 https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toaf002 |
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