Honey bees cannot sense harmful concentrations of metal pollutants in food
Coline Monchanin, María Gabriela de Brito Sanchez, Loreleï Lecouvreur, Océane Boidard, Grégoire Méry, Jérôme Silvestre, Gaël Le Roux, David Baqué, Arnaud Elger, Andrew B. Barron, Mathieu Lihoreau, Jean‐Marc Devaud
This study shows honey bees cannot detect harmful metal concentrations in food, only avoiding very high levels that exceed regulatory thresholds.
bioRxiv · Jun 15, 2021Neuroscience