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Letters to the Editor

Response to Tennekes (2018) “The Resilience of the Beehive” Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health B 20: 316–386

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Pages 5-7 | Received 21 Dec 2017, Accepted 03 Jan 2018, Published online: 09 Jan 2018
 

ABSTRACT

This paper is a response to a letter from Dr. H Tennekes (“The Resilience of the Beehive” Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health B 20: 316–386). Here we emphasize that our quantitative weight of evidence analyses were focused on the level of the honeybee colony. These colony-level responses include redundancy and resiliency as well as a number of possible sublethal effects of pesticides on the colony. We also note that the literature has shown that binding of neonicotinoid insecticides to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is reversible. The comments in this letter do not provide reasons to change our conclusions, that, as currently used in good agricultural practices as seed-treatments, imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam do not present significant risks to honeybees at the level of the colony.

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