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Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees
Flumethrin has been widely used as an acaricide for the control of Varroa mites in commercial honeybee keeping throughout the world for many years. Here we test the mortality of the Asian honeybee Apis cerana cerana after treatment with flumethrin. We also ask (1) how bees react to the odor of flume...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3681914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23785490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066295 |
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author | Tan, Ken Yang, Shuang Wang, Zhengwei Menzel, Randolf |
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description | Flumethrin has been widely used as an acaricide for the control of Varroa mites in commercial honeybee keeping throughout the world for many years. Here we test the mortality of the Asian honeybee Apis cerana cerana after treatment with flumethrin. We also ask (1) how bees react to the odor of flumethrin, (2) whether its odor induces an innate avoidance response, (3) whether its taste transmits an aversive reinforcing component in olfactory learning, and (4) whether its odor or taste can be associated with reward in classical conditioning. Our results show that flumethrin has a negative effect on Apis ceranàs lifespan, induces an innate avoidance response, acts as a punishing reinforcer in olfactory learning, and interferes with the association of an appetitive conditioned stimulus. Furthermore flumethrin uptake within the colony reduces olfactory learning over an extended period of time. |
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spelling | pubmed-36819142013-06-19 Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees Tan, Ken Yang, Shuang Wang, Zhengwei Menzel, Randolf PLoS One Research Article Flumethrin has been widely used as an acaricide for the control of Varroa mites in commercial honeybee keeping throughout the world for many years. Here we test the mortality of the Asian honeybee Apis cerana cerana after treatment with flumethrin. We also ask (1) how bees react to the odor of flumethrin, (2) whether its odor induces an innate avoidance response, (3) whether its taste transmits an aversive reinforcing component in olfactory learning, and (4) whether its odor or taste can be associated with reward in classical conditioning. Our results show that flumethrin has a negative effect on Apis ceranàs lifespan, induces an innate avoidance response, acts as a punishing reinforcer in olfactory learning, and interferes with the association of an appetitive conditioned stimulus. Furthermore flumethrin uptake within the colony reduces olfactory learning over an extended period of time. Public Library of Science 2013-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3681914/ /pubmed/23785490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066295 Text en © 2013 Ken et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tan, Ken Yang, Shuang Wang, Zhengwei Menzel, Randolf Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees |
title | Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees |
title_full | Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees |
title_fullStr | Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees |
title_short | Effect of Flumethrin on Survival and Olfactory Learning in Honeybees |
title_sort | effect of flumethrin on survival and olfactory learning in honeybees |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3681914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23785490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066295 |
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