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Honeybees fail to discriminate floral scents in a complex learning task after consuming a neonicotinoid pesticide

Neonicotinoids are pesticides used to protect crops but with known secondary influences at sublethal doses on bees. Honeybees use their sense of smell to identify the queen and nestmates, to signal danger and to distinguish flowers during foraging. Few behavioural studies to date have examined how n...

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Autores principales: Mustard, Julie A., Gott, Annie, Scott, Jennifer, Chavarria, Nancy L., Wright, Geraldine A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32029463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.217174