Leaching of the Neonicotinoids Thiamethoxam and Imidacloprid from Sugar Beet Seed Dressings to Subsurface Tile Drains

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• 作者：Felix E. Wettstein ; Roy Kasteel ; Maria F. Garcia Delgado ; Irene Hanke ; Sebastian Huntscha ; Marianne E. Balmer ; Thomas Poiger ; Thomas D. Bucheli
• 刊名：Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 24, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：64
• 期：33
• 页码：6407-6415
• 全文大小：426K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5118

文摘

Pesticide transport from seed dressings toward subsurface tile drains is still poorly understood. We monitored the neonicotinoid insecticides imidacloprid and thiamethoxam from sugar beet seed dressings in flow-proportional drainage water samples, together with spray applications of bromide and the herbicide S-metolachlor in spring and the fungicides epoxiconazole and kresoxim-methyl in summer. Event-driven, high first concentration maxima up to 2830 and 1290 ng/L for thiamethoxam and imidacloprid, respectively, were followed by an extended period of tailing and suggested preferential flow. Nevertheless, mass recoveries declined in agreement with the degradation and sorption properties collated in the groundwater ubiquity score, following the order bromide (4.9%), thiamethoxam (1.2%), imidacloprid (0.48%), kresoxim-methyl acid (0.17%), S-metolachlor (0.032%), epoxiconazole (0.013%), and kresoxim-methyl (0.003%), and indicated increased leaching from seed dressings compared to spray applications. Measured concentrations and mass recoveries indicate that subsurface tile drains contribute to surface water contamination with neonicotinoids from seed dressings.