Testapi participates to different European ring tests with honeybees (Apis mellifera), bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) and solitary bees (Osmia sp)in order to establish OECD guidelines.
The OECD guideline on Honeybee Homing Flight is now issued following to our contribution to the five-year ring test and the redaction of this guideline.
Testapi is a member of the expert group to the last comments on the draft guideline. https://www.oecd.org/chemicalsafety/testing/Draft%20OECD%20TG_Homing%20flight%20test_honeybees_18%20May.pdf
Thanks to our expertise in experimentation on pollinators, we already performed this test with success under GLP requirements.