Otro
Oral Toxicity of Fipronil Insecticide Against the Stingless Bee Melipona scutellaris (Latreille, 1811)
Registro en:
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. New York: Springer, v. 89, n. 4, p. 921-924, 2012.
0007-4861
10.1007/s00128-012-0773-x
WOS:000308551500043
Autor
Lourenco, Clara Tavares
Carvalho, Stephan Malfitano
Malaspina, Osmar
Ferreira Nocelli, Roberta Cornelio
Resumen
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. Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)