ArticleBiology letters2019
Modality-specific impairment of learning by a neonicotinoid pesticide.
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- Food as Medicine: A Review of Plant Secondary Metabolites from Pollen, Nectar, and Resin with Health Benefits for Bees.Insects · 2025Review
- Exposure to an insecticide formulation alters chemosensory orientation, but not floral scent detection, in buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A novel insecticide impairs bumblebee memory and sucrose responsiveness across high and low nutrition.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Colony size buffers interactions between neonicotinoid exposure and cold stress in bumblebees.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- A neonicotinoid pesticide alters Drosophila olfactory processing.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Judgement bias may be explained by shifts in stimulus response curves.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Contrasting effects of fungicide and herbicide active ingredients and their formulations on bumblebee learning and behaviour.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- The flavonoid rutin protects the bumble bee Bombus impatiens against cognitive impairment by imidacloprid and fipronil.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Upper-limit agricultural dietary exposure to streptomycin in the laboratory reduces learning and foraging in bumblebees.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Landscape Enhancements in Apple Orchards: Higher Bumble Bee Queen Species Richness, but No Effect on Apple Quality.Insects · 2021Article
- Impacts of Neonicotinoids on the Bumble Bees Bombus terrestris and Bombus impatiens Examined through the Lens of an Adverse Outcome Pathway Framework.Environmental toxicology and chemistry · 2021Review
- Do novel insecticides pose a threat to beneficial insects?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Individual and combined impacts of sulfoxaflor andProceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- No evidence for neonicotinoid preferences in the bumblebeeRoyal Society open science · 2020Article
- Imidacloprid impairs performance on a model flower handling task in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens).Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2020Article
- Modality-specific impairment of learning by a neonicotinoid pesticide.Biology letters · 2019Article
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Abstract
Neonicotinoid pesticides can impair bees' ability to learn and remember information about flowers, critical for effective foraging. Although these effects on cognition may contribute to broader effects on health and performance, to date they have largely been assayed in simplified protocols that consider learning in a single sensory modality, usually olfaction. Given that real flowers display a variety of potentially useful signals, we assessed the effects of acute neonicotinoid exposure on multimodal learning in free-flying bumblebees. We found that neonicotinoid consumption differentially impacted learning of floral stimuli, impairing scent, but not colour, learning. These findings raise questions about the mechanisms by which pesticides might differentially impair sensory systems, with implications for how neonicotinoids affect multiple aspects of bee ecology.
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