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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Journal of Visualized Experiments
2016
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