Online Pesticide License Recertification Seminar Series: Pesticides and Honey Bees and Insecticide Trials for Seed Crops

Pesticides and Honey Bees, 11:00-11:30, Speaker: Tim Lawrence
Pesticides and honey bees are both essential to ensure an adequate supply of affordable food crops. This presentation will cover: the history of pesticides and pollination services provided by honey bees; the evolution of pesticides and their impact on honey bees; issues and concerns related to neonicotinoid pesticides; and steps pesticide applicators and growers can take in mitigating the effects of pesticides on honey bees and other pollinators.

Insecticides trials for seed crop production, 11:30-12:00, Speaker: Bev Gerdeman
Root maggots are a particular problem in insect pollinated seed crops like cabbage. Soil applied insecticides for the control of root maggots in the fall have been detected in nectar 9 months later. We will look at the circuitous pathway of a soil-applied insecticide into honey bee hives and its potential effects.

Please contact AMS.MountVernon@wsu.edu for Zoom details.