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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 877, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162859
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Pesticides; Pollinators; Appetitive responsiveness; Stingless bees; Africanized honey bees
Alongside other human activities, pesticides have a significant impact on the decline of pollinator populations globally. Most studies on pesticide effects have focused on honey bees due to their suitability for behavioral testing and rearing. However, it is important to also consider tropical species, which contribute greatly to biodiversity and have been overlooked thus far.
Together with other anthropogenic factors, pesticides play a major role in pollinator decline worldwide. Most studies on their influence on pollinators have focused on honey bees given the suitability of this insect for controlled behav-ioral testing and raising. Yet, studies on pesticide impact should also contemplate tropical species, which contribute a major part of biodiversity and which have remained so far neglected. Here we focused on the stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata and asked if the widely used neonicotinoid imidacloprid disrupts its learning and memory capabilities. We fed stingless bees with 0.1, 0.5 or 1 ng of imidacloprid, tested their innate appetitive responsiveness and trained them to associate odors and sucrose reward using the olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response. The same experiments were performed on Africanized honey bees. One hour after intoxication, both species decreased their innate responsiveness to sucrose but the effect was more accentuated in stingless bees. In both species, learning and memory were affected in a dose-dependent manner. These results indicate that pesticides have dramatic conse-quences on tropical bee species and claim for rational policies regulating their use in the tropics.
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