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2. Pesticide toxicity to bees - Wikipedia

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   Alternatively, the bee may come into contact with an insecticide and transport it back to the colony in contaminated pollen or nectar or on its body, potentially causing widespread colony death. [3] Actual damage to bee populations is a function of toxicity and exposure of the compound, in combination with the mode of application.

3. Bees and toxic chemicals - Wikipedia

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   In sufficient quantities, such chemicals can poison and even kill the bee. The effects of alcohol on bees have long been recognized. For example, John Cumming described the effect in an 1864 publication on beekeeping. [1] When bees become intoxicated from ethanol consumption or poisoned with other chemicals, their balance is affected.

4. Neonicotinoid - Wikipedia

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   A review article (Carreck & Ratnieks, 2015) concluded that while laboratory based studies have demonstrated adverse sub-lethal effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on honey bees and bumble bees, these same effects have not been observed in field studies, which is likely due to an overestimation of three key dosage factors (concentration ...

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6. Mallophora - Wikipedia

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   Mallophora atra Macquart, 1834 (black bee killer) Mallophora bomboides (Wiedemann, 1821) (Florida bee killer) [1] Mallophora fautrix Osten Sacken, 1887; Mallophora fulviventris Macquart, 1850; Mallophora leschenaulti Macquart, 1838 (belzebul bee-eater) Mallophora orcina (Wiedemann, 1828) (southern bee killer) [1] Mallophora thompsoni Artigas ...

7. Africanized bee - Wikipedia

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   The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis).