Sulfoxaflor modulates diet-dependent effects on bumble bee development but shows no detectable effects on adult respiration rate and patterns : [data]

Jürison, Margret; Teras, Pilleriin; Pent, Kaarel; Väli, Vivika; Raimets, Risto; Naudi, Sigmar; Ploomi, Angela; Mänd, Marika; Karise, Reet

Sulfoxaflor modulates diet-dependent effects on bumble bee development but shows no detectable effects on adult respiration rate and patterns : [data]

dc.contributor.author	Jürison, Margret
dc.contributor.author	Teras, Pilleriin
dc.contributor.author	Pent, Kaarel
dc.contributor.author	Väli, Vivika
dc.contributor.author	Raimets, Risto
dc.contributor.author	Naudi, Sigmar
dc.contributor.author	Ploomi, Angela
dc.contributor.author	Mänd, Marika
dc.contributor.author	Karise, Reet
dc.date.accessioned	2026-04-02T08:49:10Z
dc.date.available	2026-04-02T08:49:10Z
dc.date.issued	2026
dc.description.abstract	Pollinators face multiple stressors, including pesticide exposure and poor nutrition, yet their combined effects on developing brood remain poorly understood. In this study, we experimentally reared bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) larvae on pollen diets differing in protein-to-lipid (P:L) ratios and exposed them to the insecticide sulfoxaflor via their food to test how these factors jointly affect survival, development, and adult traits. Larvae fed multifloral pollen exhibited higher survival and more consistent growth than monofloral (oilseed rape, faba bean) diets. Under the oliseed rape, sulfoxaflor reduced mortality and increased adult emergence despite poorer baseline performance in controls. In contrast, under the multifloral diet, sulfoxaflor prolonged development, reduced larval growth, and lowered adult body mass. Under faba bean, responses varied across traits, with prolonged development at lower exposure and reduced growth at higher exposure. Despite these developmental effects, sulfoxaflor did not significantly affect adult respiration rate, and respiration patterns showed no significant treatment effects, although diet-dependent trends were observed. These findings demonstrate that sulfoxaflor effects are strongly context-dependent and mediated by nutritional conditions. They indicate that sulfoxaflor shifts diet-dependent trade-offs between survival and development, improving survival on nutritionally limiting diets while imposing developmental delays and growth costs when nutrition is otherwise favourable.	eng
dc.description.sponsorship	This research was supported by the Estonian Research Council through the Personal Research Funding: Team Grant (PRG2720) “Risks and benefits arising from food resources in agricultural landscape for honey bees: a model based approach” and project L240010PKEL (MS-24-7-TA) “Study on Estonian Pollen”.
dc.identifier.citation	Jürison, M., Teras, P., Pent, K., Väli, V., Raimets, R., Naudi, S., Ploomi, A., Mänd, M., & Karise, R. (2026). Sulfoxaflor modulates diet-dependent effects on bumble bee development but shows no detectable effects on adult respiration rate and patterns : [data] [Data set]. Estonian University of Life Sciences. https://doi.org/10.15159/EDS.DT.26.04	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10492/10356
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.15159/eds.dt.26.04
dc.publisher	Estonian University of Life Sciences	eng
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)	eng
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	eng
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	eng
dc.subject	bumble bee development	eng
dc.subject	sulfoxaflor and pollen co-effect	eng
dc.subject	respiratory physiology	eng
dc.subject	data	eng
dc.title	Sulfoxaflor modulates diet-dependent effects on bumble bee development but shows no detectable effects on adult respiration rate and patterns : [data]	eng
dc.type	Dataset	eng