Anke Dietzsch
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Anke Dietzsch
@ankedietzsch.bsky.social
Bees, plants and dance -
I'm a researcher at the Institute for Bee Protection, Julius Kühn Institute in Brunswick, Germany;
agroecology | ecotoxicology | wild bee diversity | plant-pollinator interactions | pollinator monitoring
🇩🇪🇨🇮🇺🇲 views are my own
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Pike & Rittschof pointing out that "only ∼13% of resource competition studies evaluated fitness effects of A. mellifera on wild bees" and call it a research gap. Not surprising! It's a real challenge to look at fitness, particularly for rare species, which might be the most vulnerable.
August 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In another study, my colleagues at the @jki-research.bsky.social could show that there are multiple factors driving this drift of pesticides to adjacent vegetation. They used sowing of pesticide-treated seeds as an example of pesticide application doi.org/10.1007/s113...
Deposition of dust with active substances in pesticides from treated seeds in adjacent fields during drilling: disentangling the effects of various factors using an 8-year field experiment - Environme...
The side effects from the use of plant protection products and their potential effects on non-target arthropods (NTAs) such as honey bees, other insects within the vegetation layer and epigeic arthrop...
doi.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
August 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM