The Effect of Sublethal Doses of Parathion on Honeybee Behaviour. I. Oral Administration and the Communication Dance

Schricker, B.; Stephen, W. P.

doi:10.1080/00218839.1970.11100261

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“…Stress may also have been a factor in this study. Honey bees, especially newly emerged workers, are sensitive to stress in many forms such as narcosis (Beckmann, 1974;Ebadi et al, 1980), sublethal pesticide exposure (Schricker and Stephen, 1970;Smirle et al, 1984), and increased activity (Lindauer, 1953;Free and Spencer-Booth, 1959), and neural function has been shown to be adversely affected by some of these (Stephen and Schricker, 1970;Beckmann, 1974 …”

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“…Pesticide use has also become an essential part of modern agriculture, and the honey bee is susceptible to many commonly used chemicals (Anderson and Atkins, 1968;Atkins, 1975;Johansen, 1977Johansen, , 1979Johansen, , 1983 (Stoner et al, 1985), carbaryl (Winterlin and Walker, 1973), dimethoate Waller et al, 1979;Barker et al, 1980;Stoner et al, 1983) and carbofuran (Stoner et al, 1982) to whole colonies reduced honey production, brood rearing and worker population size. Sublethal topical treatments to individual workers resulted in impairment in the dance language with methyl-parathion (Schricker and Stephen, 1970), reduced lifespan with malathion or diazinon (Smirle et al, 1984;MacKenzie, 1986); and altered foraging patterns with diazinon (MacKenzie, 1986) and permethrin (Cox and Wilson, 1984). It is important therefore to evaluate both acute toxicity and sublethal effects of a pesticide when gauging its hazard to the honey bee.…”

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The effects of sublethal exposure to diazinon, carbaryl and resmethrin on longevity and foraging in Apis mellifera L

MacKenzie¹,

Winston²

1989

Apidologie

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Summary — Topical, sublethal applications of three insecticides, diazinon, carbaryl and resmethrin, were given to worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) of two age groups, 0 and 14 days. For newly emerged workers, carbaryl was the most hazardous in sublethal amounts, adversely affecting both longevity and foraging age. Resmethrin was intermediate in effect, and diazinon the least hazardous. This is different from mortality studies in which the effects of carbaryl and diazinon were similar, and resmethrin the most toxic. For 14-day-old workers, there were only two statistically significant differences affecting foraging in the sublethal studies, and these were not conclusive. However, in mortality studies carbaryl was the least toxic, diazinon intermediate and resmethrin the most toxic pesticide.Newly emerged worker honey bees were more sensitive to pesticide exposure, in both acute and sublethal effects, than older workers. In order to evaluate pesticide hazards to the honey bee, both laboratory and field tests should be used. A field bioassay involving sublethal exposure effects on longevity and foraging may be useful in this regard.

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The effects of sublethal exposure to diazinon, carbaryl and resmethrin on longevity and foraging in Apis mellifera L

MacKenzie¹,

Winston²

1989

Apidologie

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“…Future studies need to explore the potential for further neurochemical dissection of dance communication and to identify other neural systems that contribute to different dance elements. Schricker and Stephen (20) observed that a sublethal dose of the insecticide parathion (a cholinesterase inhibitor) distorted distance communication. Bozic and Woodring (21) reported higher levels of both OA and dopamine in the brains of dancers compared with dance followers and resting bees and more dancing in two colonies fed the dopamine precursor dihydroxyphenylalanine.…”

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Octopamine modulates honey bee dance behavior

Barron

Maleszka

Meer³

et al. 2007

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Honey bees communicate the location and desirability of valuable forage sites to their nestmates through an elaborate, symbolic ''dance language.'' The dance language is a uniquely complex communication system in invertebrates, and the neural mechanisms that generate dances are largely unknown. Here we show that treatments with controlled doses of the biogenic amine neuromodulator octopamine selectively increased the reporting of resource value in dances by forager bees. Oral and topical octopamine treatments modulated aspects of dances related to resource profitability in a dose-dependent manner. Dances for pollen and sucrose responded similarly to octopamine treatment, and these effects were eliminated by treatment with the octopamine antagonist mianserin. We propose that octopamine modulates the representation of floral rewards in dances by changing the processing of reward in the honey bee brain. Octopamine is known to modulate appetitive behavior in a range of solitary insects; the role of octopamine in dance provides an example of how neural substrates can be adapted for new behavioral innovations in the process of social evolution.Apis mellifera ͉ biogenic amine ͉ foraging ͉ reward ͉ social behavior

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“…This division of labor can be adversely affected by sublethal exposure to pesticides such as parathion (32). The phenomenon of bee dancing, in which the distance and direction to food sources communicated to other members of the hive, is disrupted by exposure to methyl parathion (33), and foraging for new food supplies is disrupted by exposure to permethrin (34). Changes such as these can drastically reduce a bee colony's chances of survival and produce a substantial economic impact for those that depend on bees as crop pollinators.…”

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Ethological and Experimental Approaches to Behavior Analysis: Implications for Ecotoxicology

Cohn¹,

MacPhail²

1996

Environmental Health Perspectives

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The Effect of Sublethal Doses of Parathion on Honeybee Behaviour. I. Oral Administration and the Communication Dance

Cited by 50 publications

References 9 publications

The effects of sublethal exposure to diazinon, carbaryl and resmethrin on longevity and foraging in Apis mellifera L

The effects of sublethal exposure to diazinon, carbaryl and resmethrin on longevity and foraging in Apis mellifera L

Octopamine modulates honey bee dance behavior

Ethological and Experimental Approaches to Behavior Analysis: Implications for Ecotoxicology

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