ArticleToxics2023
Chronic Exposure to Polystyrene Microplastic Fragments Has No Effect on Honey Bee Survival, but Reduces Feeding Rate and Body Weight.
Article in Toxics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Bees and Microplastic Studies: A Systematic Review.Neotropical entomology · 2025Pooled it
- The Fate of Orally Ingested Microplastics During Cooperative Brood Care in Two Social Hymenoptera Species.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Impact of Polystyrene Micro- and Nanoplastics on the Biological Traits of the Japanese Carpenter Ant,Insects · 2025Article
- Revealing antagonistic interactions in the adverse effects of polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate) microplastics in bumblebees.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Plastic pollution in agricultural landscapes: an overlooked threat to pollination, biocontrol and food security.Nature communications · 2024Review
- Emerging threats and opportunities to managed bee species in European agricultural systems: a horizon scan.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Microplastics (MPs), in the form of fragments and fibers, were recently found in honey samples collected in Ecuador as well as in honey bees collected from Denmark and China. However, little is known about how MPs impact bee health. To fill this knowledge gap, we investigated the potential toxicity of irregularly shaped polystyrene (PS)-MP fragments on honey bee health. In the first experiment of its kind with honey bees, we chronically exposed bees with a well-established gut microbiome to small (27 ± 17 µm) or large (93 ± 25 µm) PS-MP fragments at varying concentrations (1, 10, 100 µg mL
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