Fungicides and bee Decline

摘要

[The Editor would like to thank Etienne Bruneau and the Editor of Bee Cu/ftyre1bT"their kind permission to republish this article, which appeared in Bee Culture in September 2020.]For years, fungicides were not considered toxic to bees. Today, however, questions are being asked and some scientific articles are calling this into question. One can wonder whether fungicides do not have an active role in the phenomena of Winter decline of bees observed in some years in our regions. Here is a quick overview of what can be found today in the scientific literature.