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Article: The attraction of Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) to soft drinks and perfumes.
- Article from:
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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The proboscis-extension reflex has become invaluable in studying a wide range of behavioral, genetic, and neurobiological phenomena in European honey bees (EHBs). The reflex is studied by confining bees in small metal harnesses. One or more presentations of an odor and sucrose feeding increases the frequency of background emissions of proboscis extension to odor (Smith & Abramson, 1992). The development of this Pavlovian conditioning procedure has made possible a variety of sophisticated experiments on honey-bee learning (Abramson, 1994). The experiments discussed in this article were designed to test the feasibility of using the proboscis extension reflex to study ...