A pragmatic approach to assess the exposure of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) when subjected to pesticide spray.

Plant protection spray treatments may expose non-target organisms to pesticides. In the pesticide registration procedure, the honey bee represents one of the non-target model species for which the risk posed by pesticides must be assessed on the basis of the hazard quotient (HQ). The HQ is defined a...

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Main Authors: Yannick Poquet, Laurent Bodin, Marc Tchamitchian, Marion Fusellier, Barbara Giroud, Florent Lafay, Audrey Buleté, Sylvie Tchamitchian, Marianne Cousin, Michel Pélissier, Jean-Luc Brunet, Luc P Belzunces
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4239102?pdf=render