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10. Connecting the nutrient composition of seasonal pollens with changing nutritional needs of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies

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DeGrandi-Hoffman, Gloria, primary, Gage, Stephanie L., additional, Corby-Harris, Vanessa, additional, Carroll, Mark, additional, Chambers, Mona, additional, Graham, Henry, additional, Watkins deJong, Emily, additional, Hidalgo, Geoffrey, additional, Calle, Samantha, additional, Azzouz-Olden, Farida, additional, Meador, Charlotte, additional, Snyder, Lucy, additional, and Ziolkowski, Nick, additional

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2018
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13. Accelerated abdominal lipid depletion from pesticide treatment alters honey bee pollen foraging strategy, but not onset, in worker honey bees

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Elizabeth Deeter, Megan, Snyder, Lucy A., Meador, Charlotte, and Corby-Harris, Vanessa

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 to facilitate the stress response. Whether bees with stressor-induced accelerated lipid loss vary from controls in both the onset of foraging and nutritional quality of collected pollen is not fully understood. We asked whether stressors affect foraging behavior through the depletion of abdominal lipid, and whether stress-induced lipid depletion causes bees to forage earlier and for fattier pollen. We tested this by treating newly emerged bees with one of two pesticides, pyriproxyfen (a juvenile hormone analog) and spirodiclofen (a fatty acid synthesis disruptor), that may affect energy homeostasis in non-target insects. Bees fed these pesticides were returned to hives to observe the onset of foraging behavior. We also sampled foraging bees to assay both abdominal lipids and dietary lipid content of their corbicular pollen. Initially, spirodiclofen-treated bees had significantly more abdominal lipids, but these declined faster compared with controls. These bees also collected less, yet more lipid-rich, pollen. Our results suggest that bees with accelerated lipid decline rely on dietary lipid content and must collect fattier pollen to compensate. Pyriproxyfen treatment reduced the age at first forage but did not affect abdominal or collected pollen lipid levels, suggesting that accelerated fat body depletion is not a prerequisite for precocious foraging.

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2023
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14. Viewpoints

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Meador, Charlotte, Jansson, Sune, Andrus, Arch, Smith, David R., Glover, Sarah, Gau, Jocarol, and Breaux, Ken

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General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Published
2003

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