Pollinating insects provide a vital ecosystem service to crops and wild plants. Exposure to low doses of neonicotinoid insecticides has sub-lethal effects on social pollinators such as bumblebees and honeybees, disturbing their navigation and interfering with their development. Solitary Hymenoptera are also very important ecosystem service providers, but the sub-lethal effects of neonicotinoids have not yet been studied well in those animals. We analyzed the ability of walking Osmia to remember a feeding place in a small environment and found that Osmia remembers the feeding place well after four days' training. Uptake of field realistic amounts of the neonicotinoid clothianidin (0.76 ng/bee) altered the animals' sensory responses to the visual environment and interfered with the retrieval of navigational memory. We conclude that the neonicotinoid clothianidin compromises visual guidance and the use of navigational memory in the solitary bee Osmia cornuta.
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The neonicotinoid clothianidin interferes with navigation of the solitary bee Osmia cornuta in a laboratory test
Nanxiang Jin,
Nanxiang Jin
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1
Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
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Simon Klein,
Simon Klein
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1
Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
2
Master Biosciences – Département de Biologie - École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
, Lyon
, France
3
Research Centre on Animal Cognition, CNRS – University Paul Sabatier
, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
, France
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Fabian Leimig,
Fabian Leimig
1
Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
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Gabriela Bischoff,
Gabriela Bischoff
4
Institute for Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection, Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
, Königin-Luise-Straße 19, 14195 Berlin
, Germany
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Randolf Menzel
Randolf Menzel
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Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
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Nanxiang Jin
*
1
Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
Simon Klein
*
1
Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
2
Master Biosciences – Département de Biologie - École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
, Lyon
, France
3
Research Centre on Animal Cognition, CNRS – University Paul Sabatier
, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
, France
Fabian Leimig
1
Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
Gabriela Bischoff
4
Institute for Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection, Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
, Königin-Luise-Straße 19, 14195 Berlin
, Germany
Randolf Menzel
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1
Institut Biologie
, Neurobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin
, Germany
*
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Received:
10 Apr 2015
Accepted:
14 Jul 2015
Online ISSN: 1477-9145
Print ISSN: 0022-0949
© 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd
2015
J Exp Biol jeb.123612.
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10 Apr 2015
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14 Jul 2015
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Nanxiang Jin, Simon Klein, Fabian Leimig, Gabriela Bischoff, Randolf Menzel; The neonicotinoid clothianidin interferes with navigation of the solitary bee Osmia cornuta in a laboratory test. J Exp Biol 2015; jeb.123612. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.123612
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