ArticleScientific reports2016
Absence of food alternatives promotes risk-prone feeding of unpalatable substances in honey bees.
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- The short neuropeptide F regulates appetitive but not aversive responsiveness in a social insect.iScience · 2022Article
- Adipokinetic hormone (AKH), energy budget and their effect on feeding and gustatory processes of foraging honey bees.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Impact of alkaloids in food consumption, metabolism and survival in a blood-sucking insect.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Acute sublethal exposure to toxic heavy metals alters honey bee (Apis mellifera) feeding behavior.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Failure to Find Ethanol-Induced Conditioned Taste Aversion in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.).Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Article
- Behavioral responses of honey bees (Apis mellifera) to natural and synthetic xenobiotics in food.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Food consumption and food exchange of caged honey bees using a radioactive labelled sugar solution.PloS one · 2017Article
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Abstract
The question of why animals sometimes ingest noxious substances is crucial to understand unknown determinants of feeding behaviour. Research on risk-prone feeding behaviour has largely focused on energy budgets as animals with low energy budgets tend to ingest more aversive substances. A less explored possibility is that risk-prone feeding arises from the absence of alternative feeding options, irrespectively of energy budgets. Here we contrasted these two hypotheses in late-fall and winter honey bees. We determined the toxicity of various feeding treatments and showed that when bees can choose between sucrose solution and a mixture of this sucrose solution and a noxious/unpalatable substance, they prefer the pure sucrose solution and reject the mixtures, irrespective of their energy budget. Yet, when bees were presented with a single feeding option and their escape possibilities were reduced, they consumed unexpectedly some of the previously rejected mixtures, independently of their energy budget. These findings are interpreted as a case of feeding helplessness, in which bees behave as if it were utterly helpless to avoid the potentially noxious food and consume it. They suggest that depriving bees of variable natural food sources may have the undesired consequence of increasing their acceptance of food that would be otherwise rejected.
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