The Impact of Neonicotinoid Insecticides on Non-Target Insects and Mites
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Pest and Vector Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2025) | Viewed by 490
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Lepidoptera; biology; insect conservation; biological control; chemical ecology
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Dear Colleagues,
Neonicotinoids are the world’s most popular and widely used insecticides. Due to their systemic mode of action and high persistence in the environment, they pose a risk to wildlife and human health that is increasingly being recognized as critical. The threat they pose to the environment has been likened by some to that of DDT and organochlorine insecticides, effectively highlighted by Rachel Carson in 1962 in the book Silent Spring. Among the many risks that neonicotinoids pose are their lethal and sub-lethal impacts on non-target insects and mites, which negatively affect biological control, pollination and biodiversity. Research identifying and characterizing the sub-lethal impacts of neonicotinoid insecticides is vitally important and a requisite for fully understanding the depth and breadth of the problem. In this topical collection, we welcome contributions that investigate the lethal and sub-lethal impacts of neonicotinoid insecticides on non-target insects and mites, particularly those that support biological control and pollination, but also those that investigate their impact on arthropod conservation and biodiversity.
Dr. David G. James
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neonicotinoids
- insecticide
- non-target
- environment
- beneficials
- pollinators
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