Oral Toxicity of Fipronil Insecticide Against the Stingless Bee Melipona scutellaris (Latreille, 1811)


Autoria(s): Lourenco, Clara Tavares; Carvalho, Stephan Malfitano; Malaspina, Osmar; Ferreira Nocelli, Roberta Cornelio
Contribuinte(s)

Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Data(s)

20/05/2014

20/05/2014

01/10/2012

Resumo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

For a better evaluation of the model using Apis mellifera in toxicology studies with insecticides, the oral acute toxicity of the insecticide fipronil against the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris was determined. The results showed that fipronil was highly toxic to M. scutellaris, with a calculated LC50 (48 h) value of 0.011 ng a.i./mu L of sucrose solution and an estimated oral LD50 (48 h) of 0.6 ng a.i./bee. Our results showed that M. scutellaris bee is more sensitive to fipronil than the model specie A. mellifera.

Formato

921-924

Identificador

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-012-0773-x

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. New York: Springer, v. 89, n. 4, p. 921-924, 2012.

0007-4861

http://hdl.handle.net/11449/19945

10.1007/s00128-012-0773-x

WOS:000308551500043

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Springer

Relação

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Direitos

closedAccess

Palavras-Chave #Urucu bee #Ecotoxicology #Pesticide #LC50
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article