| Autor: |
Carreck, Norman L., Amaral, Joana S., Anagnostopoulos, Christ, Baveco, Hans, Bieszczad, Sarah, Biron, David G., Brodschneider, Robert, Brusbardis, Valters, Charistos, Leonidas, Coffey, Mary F., Eulderink, C., Fernández-Alba, A.R., Formato, Giovanni, De Graaf, D.G., Gratzer, Kristina, Gary, A., Hatjina, Fani, Kasiotis, Konstantinos, Kilpinen, Ole, Murcia-Morales, Maria, Pietropaoli, Marco, Pinto, M. Alice, Quaresma, Andreia, Roessink, Ivo, Rufino, José, Vejsnæs, Flemming, Zafeiraki, Effrosyni, Van Der Steen, J. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Popis: |
INSIGNIA aims to design and test an innovative, non-invasive, scientifically proven citizen science environmental monitoring protocol for the detection of pesticides via honey bees. It is a pilot project initiated and financed by the European Commission (PP-1-1-2018; EC SANTE). The study is being carried out by a consortium of specialists in honey bees, apiculture, chemistry, molecular biology, statistics, analytics, modelling, extension, social science and citizen science from twelve countries. Honey bee colonies are excellent bio-samplers of biological material such as nectar, pollen and plant pathogens, as well as non-biological material such as pesticides or airborne contamination. Honey bee colonies forage over a circle of about 1 km radius, increasing to several km if required depending on the availability and attractiveness of food. All material collected is concentrated in the hive, and the honey bee colony can provide four main matrices for environmental monitoring: bees, honey, pollen and wax. For pesticides, pollen and wax are the focal matrices. Pollen collected in pollen traps will be sampled every two weeks to record foraging conditions. During the season, most of pollen is consumed within days, so beebread can provide recent, random sampling results. On the other hand wax acts as a passive sampler, building up an archive of pesticides that have entered the hive. Alternative in-hive passive samplers will be tested to replicate wax as a “pesticide-sponge”. Samples will be analysed for the presence of pesticides and the botanical origin of the pollen using an ITS2 DNA metabarcoding approach. Data on pollen and pesticides will be then be combined to obtain information on foraging conditions and pesticide use, together with evaluation of the CORINE database for land use and pesticide legislation to model the exposure risks to honey bees and wild bees. All monitoring steps from sampling through to analysis will be studied and tested in four countries in year 1, and the best practices will then be ring-tested in nine countries in year 2. Information about the course of the project and its results and publications will be available in the INSIGNIA website www.insignia-bee.eu. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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