PESTICIDES

“NEONICOTINOIDS”

Jun Akizaki
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 HOW DO PESTICIDES
GET INTO HONEY?

Pradnya Paramitha
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Khairana Khanafani
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Yana Anisa Putri

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 Welcome!

Honey is nature’s sweetest gift. But did you know that honey
may contain pesticides? Farmers use pesticides to kill pests that
harm their crops. But pesticides also hurt honey bees and other
beneficial insects. Furthermore, when bees collect nectar from
flowers which received pesticide treatments, these chemicals
make their way into the honey. In the past, scientists found
neonicotinoids (a class of pesticides) in about half of the honey
samples collected in the United Kingdom.

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 What is
NEONICOTINOIDS?
Neonicotinoids in Pesticides

Neonicotinoids are a class of neuro-active insecticide

chemically similar to nicotine. In the 1980s Shell and
the 1990s Bayer started work on their development.

The neonicotinoid family includes acetamiprid,

clothianidin, imidacloprid, nitenpyram, nithiazine,
thiacloprid, and thiamethoxam.
In 2014, EU banned the three main necotinoids
(clothianidin, imidacloprid, thiamethoxam) for all
outdoor uses.

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What’s the effect?
Neonicotinoids mess with bees’ brains-affecting their ability
to learn and remember. That may be a death sentence for
bees because they need to know how return to their hives.
Neonicotinoids may impact bees’ ability to forage, learn, and
remember navigation routes to and from food sources.

Neonicotinoids can be responsible for detrimental

effects on bumblebee colony growth and queen
production.

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How the bees can get this chemical substance?

Neonicotinoids applied to seeds and then plants

absorb them into all parts. So, by drinking the
nectar and eating some pollen, and feeding
honey to their babies, it can affect them too.

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THANK YOU!
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