Failure to Find Proboscis Conditioning in One-Day Old Africanized Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera L,) and in Adult Uru§u. Honey bees (Melipona Scutellaris)

1999

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Abstract

The proboscis extension reflex was used to investigate behavior

modification in one day old Africanized honey bees and in adult Uru^u honey bees.

Experiments were designed to investigate classical conditioning, pseudoconditioning,

and central excitatory state. Additional experiments examined the suitability of the

proboscis extension reflex to serve as a feeding assay were carried out on Urugu. The

results indicated no classical conditioning and no pseudoconditioning in young

Africanized bees or in the adult Uru9u. A large central excitatory effect was observed in

young Africanized bees, but only a small effect was observed in Urugu. The proboscis

extension reflex could be used as an assay to test the suitability of artificial diets in

Uru§u.

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