Effects of Permethrin on the Behavior of Individually Tagged Honey Bees, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 13 (2) , 375-378
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/13.2.375
Abstract
Individually tagged honey bee foragers were treated topically with a sublethal dose of permethrin at a feeding station, and their behavior was observed inside an observation beehive. Permethrin-treated adult bees exhibited a significantly higher percentage of time in self-cleaning, trembling dance, abdomen tucking, rotating, and cleaning of abdomen while rubbing hind legs together. In contrast, untreated bees exhibited a higher percentage of time in walking, body insertion, and food giving, and made more foraging trips.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: