sulfoxaflor and chlorfenapyr

Osmia excavata is an important pollinator in commercial fruit orchards. Little information has been published about ecotoxicity to O. excavata, especially the larvae. To clarify the risk of commonly used insecticides with different modes of action to the larvae of O. excavata, six insecticides (clothianidin, acetamiprid, sulfoxaflor, lambda-cyhalothrin, chlorfenapyr and abamectin) were selected for evaluation of their acute lethal toxicity and sublethal effects. Clothianidin and abamectin were the two most toxic insecticides to the larvae of O. excavata with LD

Topics: Animals; Bees; Crops, Agricultural; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Ecotoxicology; Guanidines; Insecticides; Larva; Lethal Dose 50; Neonicotinoids; Nitriles; Pollination; Pyrethrins; Pyridines; Risk Assessment; Sulfur Compounds; Thiazoles