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Failure to Find Proboscis Conditioning in One-Day Old Africanized Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera L,) and in Adult Uru§u. Honey bees (Melipona Scutellaris)
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https://doi.org/10.46867/C43G6JAbstract
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.