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Re: Bees Prefer Their Sucrose With A Dash Of Imidacloprid and Thiamethoxam!
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Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:42:57 -0400
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The authors explain:

The preference of the bees in our assays for solutions containing
IMD or TMX probably arises from the pharmacological action of these
compounds on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the
bees’ brains. Previous studies have demonstrated
that free-flying honeybees prefer to collect sucrose solutions
containing low concentrations of nicotine.

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