Chronic within-hive video recordings detect altered nursing behaviour and retarded larval development of neonicotinoid treated honey bees
- Risk evaluations for agricultural chemicals are necessary to preserve healthy populations of honey bee colonies. Field studies on whole colonies are limited in behavioural research, while results from lab studies allow only restricted conclusions on whole colony impacts. Methods for automated long-term investigations of behaviours within comb cells, such as brood care, were hitherto missing. In the present study, we demonstrate an innovative video method that enables within-cell analysis in honey bee (Apis mellifera) observation hives to detect chronic sublethal neonicotinoid effects of clothianidin (1 and 10 ppb) and thiacloprid (200 ppb) on worker behaviour and development. In May and June, colonies which were fed 10 ppb clothianidin and 200 ppb thiacloprid in syrup over three weeks showed reduced feeding visits and duration throughout various larval development days (LDDs). On LDD 6 (capping day) total feeding duration did not differ between treatments. Behavioural adaptation was exhibited by nurses in the treatment groups in response to retarded larval development by increasing the overall feeding timespan. Using our machine learning algorithm, we demonstrate a novel method for detecting behaviours in an intact hive that can be applied in a versatile manner to conduct impact analyses of chemicals, pests and other stressors.
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| Author: | Paul Siefert, Rudra Hota, Visvanathan RameshORCiD, Bernd Grünewald |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-543164 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65425-y |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32457387 |
| Parent Title (English): | Scientific reports |
| Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature |
| Place of publication: | [London] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/05/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/06/03 |
| Tag: | Agroecology; Behavioural ecology; Behavioural methods; Developmental biology; Social behaviour |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 1, Art. 8727 |
| Page Number: | 15 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 15 |
| Note: | Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 467145393 |
| Institutes: | Biowissenschaften / Biowissenschaften |
| Informatik und Mathematik / Informatik | |
| Biowissenschaften / Institut für Bienenkunde | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Biowissenschaften |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
