Effect Evaluation of Some Pesticides and its Repellent, and Attractiveness to honeybee workers

Abstract

The first bioassay was the demonstration of all pesticides toxicities with different concentrations to honeybee workers of Apis mellifera according to times exposure. The second bioassay included repellency and attractiveness test, Results indicated that some pesticides had repellency effect such as the IGR Dimilin and Acaricide Nissoron with significant differences with other pesticides, while the fungicides Topas and Benlate were attractive