Supplementary material from "Pollen nutrition fosters honeybee tolerance to pesticides"
Posted on 2021-08-11 - 07:34
A reduction in floral resource abundance and diversity is generally observed in agro-ecosystems, along with widespread exposure to pesticides. Therefore, a better understanding on how the availability and quality of pollen diets can modulate honeybee sensitivity to pesticides is required. For that purpose, we evaluated the toxicity of acute exposure and chronic exposures to field realistic and higher concentrations of azoxystrobin (fungicide) and sulfoxaflor (insecticide) in honeybees provided with pollen diets of differing qualities (named S and BQ pollens). We found that pollen intake reduced the toxicity of the acute doses of pesticides. Contrary to azoxystrobin, chronic exposures to sulfoxaflor increased by 1.5- to 12-fold bee mortality, which was reduced by pollen intake. Most importantly, the risk of death upon exposure to a high concentration of sulfoxaflor was significantly lower for the S pollen diet when compared with the BQ pollen diet. This reduced pesticide toxicity was associated with a higher gene expression of vitellogenin, a faster sulfoxaflor metabolization and a lower concentration of the phytochemical p-coumaric acid, known to upregulate detoxification enzymes. Thus, our study revealed that pollen quality can influence the ability of bees to metabolize pesticides and withstand their detrimental effects, providing another strong argument for the restoration of suitable foraging habitat.
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Barascou, Lena; Sene, Deborah; Barraud, Alexandre; Michez, Denis; Lefebvre, Victor; Medrzycki, Piotr; et al. (2021). Supplementary material from "Pollen nutrition fosters honeybee tolerance to pesticides". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5554957.v1
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AUTHORS (12)
LB
Lena Barascou
DS
Deborah Sene
AB
Alexandre Barraud
DM
Denis Michez
VL
Victor Lefebvre
PM
Piotr Medrzycki
GD
Gennaro Di Prisco
VS
Verena Strobl
OY
Orlando Yañez
PN
Peter Neumann
YL
Yves Le Conte
CA
Cedric Alaux