Numerous honeybee (Apis mellifera) products, such as honey, propolis, and bee venom, are
used in traditional medicine to prevent illness and promote healing. Therefore, this insect …

Pollination by insects is an essential service for the conservation of plant biodiversity, since it
increases the rate of fertilization of flowers and therefore increases the quality and quantity …

Discussions about environmental risk reassessment of pesticides have grown in the last
decades, especially in tropical and subtropical regions since the diversity of bee species in …

All across the world, different countries use Ecological risk assessments (ERA) of pesticides
to pollinators as a regulatory tool to understand the safety of pesticide use in agriculture …

Fipronil is a pesticide widely used to control agricultural and household insect pests.
However, fipronil is highly toxic to non-target insects, including pollinators. In this study, we …

The stingless bee Frieseomelitta varia Lepeletier 1836 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is an
essential pollinator in natural and agricultural ecosystems in the Neotropical region …

Currently, only Apis mellifera is used in environmental regulation to evaluate the hazard of
pesticides to pollinators. The low representativeness of pollinators and bee diversity in this …

Abstract Stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) are a group of highly eusocial bees with
pantropic distribution. The variety of life styles among the approximately 600 species and …

Several studies have investigated the consequences of exposure to neonicotinoids in
honeybees. Given the lack of studies concerning the consequences of exposure of social …

The increasing use of insecticides, promoted by the intensification of agriculture, has raised
concerns about their influence on the decline of bee colonies, which play a fundamental role …