Flupyradifurone reduces nectar consumption and foraging but does not alter honey bee recruitment dancing

Foraging is essential for honey bee colony fitness and is enhanced by the waggle dance, a recruitment behavior in which bees can communicate food location and quality. We tested if the consumption of nectar (sucrose solution) with a field-realistic concentration of 4 ppm flupyradifurone (FPF) could...

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Main Authors: Yan-Yan Wu, Patrick Pasberg, Qing-Yun Diao, James C. Nieh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651320311064