Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees.
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SUBMITTER: Girling RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3789406 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Diesel exhaust rapidly degrades floral odours used by honeybees.
Girling Robbie D RD Lusebrink Inka I Farthing Emily E Newman Tracey A TA Poppy Guy M GM
Scientific reports 20131003
Honeybees utilise floral odours when foraging for flowers; we investigated whether diesel exhaust pollution could interrupt these floral odour stimuli. A synthetic blend of eight floral chemicals, identified from oilseed rape, was exposed to diesel exhaust pollution. Within one minute of exposure the abundances of four of the chemicals were significantly lowered, with two components rendered undetectable. Honeybees were trained to recognise the full synthetic odour mix; altering the blend, by re ...[more]
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