Environmental Display Can Buffer the Effect of Pesticides on Solitary Bees.

ABSTRACT: Environmental quality (e.g., diversity of resource availability, nesting sites, environmental display) plays an important role in an animal's life. While homogeneous environments can restrict organisms from developing activities such as food seeking (behavioral impairment), more complex environments allow animals to perform activities with learning and behavioral perfecting outcomes. Pesticides are known to affect the learning and foraging behaviors of bees; however, little is known about the counterbalance displayed by the environment. Herein, we conducted two experiments that simulated distinct environmental displays, in which the effects of a fungicide (IndarTM 5EW-febunconazole) on solitary bee foraging activities were tested. We found that the fungicide only impaired the activities of

SUBMITTER: Boff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7412123 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature