Honey bees cannot sense harmful concentrations of metal pollutants in food.
Apis mellifera
Electrophysiology
Feeding behaviour
Learning
Metal pollution
Taste
Journal
Chemosphere
ISSN: 1879-1298
Titre abrégé: Chemosphere
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0320657
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2022
Jun 2022
Historique:
received:
26
10
2021
revised:
02
02
2022
accepted:
21
02
2022
pubmed:
4
3
2022
medline:
21
4
2022
entrez:
3
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Whether animals can actively avoid food contaminated with harmful compounds through taste is key to assess their ecotoxicological risks. Here, we investigated the ability of honey bees to perceive and avoid food resources contaminated with common metal pollutants known to impair behaviour at low concentrations. In laboratory assays, bees did not discriminate food contaminated with arsenic, lead or zinc and ingested it readily, up to estimated doses of 929.1 μg g
Identifiants
pubmed: 35240159
pii: S0045-6535(22)00582-3
doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134089
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Environmental Pollutants
0
Lead
2P299V784P
Sucrose
57-50-1
Zinc
J41CSQ7QDS
Arsenic
N712M78A8G
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
134089Informations de copyright
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