ArticleBiology letters2021
Discontinued alcohol consumption elicits withdrawal symptoms in honeybees.
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- Buzzed but not elated? Effect of ethanol on cognitive judgement bias in honeybees.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Honey bees are resilient to the long-term presence of alcohol in their diet.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2025Article
- From Natural Behavior to Drug Screening: Invertebrates as Models to Study Mechanisms Associated with Alcohol Use Disorders.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Occasional and constant exposure to dietary ethanol shortens the lifespan of worker honey bees.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2024Article
- The Effects of Ethanol and Acetic acid on Behaviour of Extranidal Workers of the Narrow-Headed AntAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Honey bee flights near hover under ethanol-exposure show changes in body and wing kinematics.PloS one · 2022Article
- Discontinued alcohol consumption elicits withdrawal symptoms in honeybees.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Honeybees show an increased preference for dietary alcohol when parasitized.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The honeybee continues to be developed as a model species in many research areas, including studies related to the effects of alcohol. Here, we investigate whether workers display one of the key features of alcoholism, namely withdrawal symptoms. We show that workers fed for a prolonged time on food spiked with ethanol, after discontinuation of access to such food, exhibited a marked increase in the consumption of ethanol and a slight increase in mortality. We additionally show that withdrawal symptoms do not include an increase in appetitiveness of ethanol diluted in water. Our results demonstrate that workers can develop alcohol dependence, which might be especially important in the natural setting of repeated exposure to ethanol in floral nectar and for their potential as a model of alcohol addiction.
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