Honeybees: Pesticides disrupt nursing behavior and larval development
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 15:20
in Mathematics & Economics
A newly developed video technique has allowed scientists to record the complete development of a honey bee in its hive. Researchers discovered that certain pesticides -- neonicotinoids -- changed the behavior of the nurse bees: they fed the larvae less often. Larval development took up to 10 hours longer. A longer development period in the hive can foster infestation by parasites.