...Megan Elizabeth Deeter; Lucy A. Snyder; Charlotte Meador; Vanessa Corby-Harris ABSTRACT Honey bee abdominal lipids decline with age, a change thought to be associated with the onset of foraging behavior. Stressors, such as pesticides, may accelerate this decline by mobilizing internal lipid...

.... and Calis , J. ( 2003 ). A semi-field approach to testing effects of fresh or aged pesticide residues on bees in multiple-rate test designs . Bull. Insectol.   56 , 97 - 102 . Behrends , A. and Scheiner , R. ( 2010 ). Learning at old age: a study on winter bees . Front. Behav...

... Classical conditioning Pesticides Xenobiotic Apis mellifera Bee health Honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) provide valuable pollination services to commercial crops ( Klatt et al., 2013 ; Klein et al., 2007 ) and make important contributions to human nutrition ( Chaplin-Kramer et al., 2014 ; Ellis...

...Hélène Collin; Anne-Leila Meistertzheim; Elise David; Dario Moraga; Isabelle Boutet SUMMARY Pesticide run-off into the ocean represents a potential threat to marine organisms, especially bivalves living in coastal environments. However, little is known about the effects of environmentally relevant...