Analysis of effects of strobilurin fungicide pyraclostrobin in midgut of Africanized Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

• Grant number: 16/15743-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2017
• End date: October 24, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Applied Zoology
• Principal Investigator: Osmar Malaspina
• Grantee: Caio Eduardo da Costa Domingues
• Host Institution: Centro de Estudos de Insetos Sociais (CEIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/05072-3 - A multifactor approach to assess the health status of honeybee colonies in Eucalyptus plantations, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Bees through pollination are essential in many agricultural crops and also in the maintenance and preservation of native vegetation. In Brazil, the managed specie Africanized Apis mellifera is the main pollinator of agricultural crops, while the native specie Melipona scutellaris is vital to flora biodiversity maintenance. Although, because the exacerbated increase of pesticides, associated with the fragmentation of their habitat, these two species present decline of their populations. The project aims are evaluate the biological effects of pyraclostrobin fungicide on A. mellifera and M. scutellaris, as well to to analyze the effects of this fungicide on mitochondrial and alcaline phosphatase enzyme activities ando n the morphology of the midgut of both species. In addition, the project aims to evaluate the difference in species sensitivity to pyraclostrobin and the distinct response of larvae and adults. The importance and relevance of the study will be given mainly that fungicides are increasingly present in agricultural fields and also in the lack of studies with ecotoxicology of stingless bees.The information generated by the project will help in the compression of the responses of larvaes and adults and support future monitoring programs of bees.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DA COSTA DOMINGUES, CAIO EDUARDO; BELLO INOUE, LAIS VIEIRA; MATHIAS DA SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE CRISTINA; MALASPINA, OSMAR. Foragers of Africanized honeybee are more sensitive to fungicide pyraclostrobin than newly emerged bees. Environmental Pollution, v. 266, n. 2, NOV 2020. (17/21097-3, 16/15743-7)

BUTOLO, NICOLE PAVAN; AZEVEDO, PATRICIA; DE ALENCAR, LUCIANO DELMONDES; DOMINGUES, CAIO E. C.; MIOTELO, LUCAS; MALASPINA, OSMAR; FERREIRA NOCELLI, ROBERTA CORNELIO. A high quality method for hemolymph collection from honeybee larvae. PLoS One, v. 15, n. 6, JUN 18 2020. (17/21097-3, 16/15743-7)

TADEI, RAFAELA; DOMINGUES, CAIO E. C.; MALAQUIAS, JOSE BRUNO; CAMILO, ERASNILSON VIEIRA; MALASPINA, OSMAR; SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE C. M.. Late effect of larval co-exposure to the insecticide clothianidin and fungicide pyraclostrobin in Africanized Apis mellifera. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 9, MAR 1 2019. (16/15743-7, 17/21097-3, 16/26043-6, 15/20380-8)

INOUE, LAIS V. B.; DOMINGUES, CAIO E. C.; GREGORC, ALES; SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE C. M.; MALASPINA, OSMAR. Harmful Effects of Pyraclostrobin on the Fat Body and Pericardial Cells of Foragers of Africanized Honey Bee. TOXICS, v. 10, n. 9, p. 14-pg., 2022-09-01. (16/15743-7, 17/21097-3)

DA COSTA DOMINGUES, CAIO EDUARDO; BELLO INOUE, LAIS VIEIRA; MATHIAS DA SILVA-ZACARIN, ELAINE CRISTINA; MALASPINA, OSMAR. Fungicide pyraclostrobin affects midgut morphophysiology and reduces survival of Brazilian native stingless bee Melipona scutellaris. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY, v. 206, DEC 15 2020. (17/21097-3, 16/15743-7)

DA COSTA DOMINGUES, CAIO EDUARDO; PAIVA SARMENTO, ARTUR MIGUEL; JESUS CAPELA, NUNO XAVIER; COSTA, JOSE MIGUEL; RODRIGUES MINA, RUBEN MIGUEL; DA SILVA, ANTONIO ALVES; REIS, ANA RAQUEL; VALENTE, CARLOS; MALASPINA, OSMAR; AZEVEDO-PEREIRA, HENRIQUE M. V. S.; et al. Monitoring the effects of field exposure of acetamiprid to honey bee colonies in Eucalyptus monoculture plantations. Science of The Total Environment, v. 844, p. 12-pg., 2022-07-07. (17/21097-3, 16/15743-7, 18/05072-3)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

DOMINGUES, Caio Eduardo da Costa. Analysis of the effects of the fungicide pyraclostrobin and the insecticide acetamiprid on eussocial bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). 2021. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências. Rio Claro Rio Claro.