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Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees

Honeybees utilise floral odours when foraging for flowers; we investigated whether diesel exhaust pollution could interrupt these floral odour stimuli. A synthetic blend of eight floral chemicals, identified from oilseed rape, was exposed to diesel exhaust pollution. Within one minute of exposure th...

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Autores principales: Girling, Robbie D., Lusebrink, Inka, Farthing, Emily, Newman, Tracey A., Poppy, Guy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3789406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24091789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02779