A Novel Behavioral Assay to Investigate Gustatory Responses of Individual, Freely-moving Bumble Bees (Bombus terrestris)

Generalist pollinators like the buff-tailed bumble bee, Bombus terrestris, encounter both nutrients and toxins in the floral nectar they collect from flowering plants. Only a few studies have described the gustatory responses of bees toward toxins in food, and these experiments have mainly used the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Visualized Experiments 2016-07 (113)
Hauptverfasser: Ma, Carolyn, Kessler, Sébastien, Simpson, Alexander, Wright, Geraldine
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