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The experiments reported here show that prolonged exposure to field-realistic concentrations of the neonicotinoid, imidacloprid, and the organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, coumaphos, and their combination impairs olfactory learning and memory formation in the honeybee. Using a method for classical conditioning of proboscis extension, honeybees were trained in either a massed or spaced conditioning protocol to examine how these pesticides affected performance during learning and short- and long-term memory tasks. We found that bees exposed to imidacloprid, coumaphos, or a combination of these compounds, were less likely to express conditioned proboscis extension towards an odor associated with reward. Bees exposed to imidacloprid were less likely to form a long-term memory, whereas bees exposed to coumaphos were only less likely to respond during the short-term memory test after massed conditioning. Both imidacloprid, coumaphos and a combination of the two compounds impaired the bees' ability to differentiate the conditioned odour from a novel odour during the memory test. Our results demonstrate that exposure to sublethal doses of combined cholinergic pesticides significantly impairs important behaviors involved in foraging, implying that pollinator population decline could be the result of a failure of neural function of bees exposed to pesticides in agricultural landscapes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1242\/jeb.083931","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,8]],"date-time":"2013-02-08T07:12:22Z","timestamp":1360307542000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":211,"title":["Exposure to multiple cholinergic pesticides impairs olfactory learning and memory in honeybees"],"prefix":"10.1242","author":[{"given":"Sally M.","family":"Williamson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Newcastle upon Tyne"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Geraldine A.","family":"Wright","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Newcastle upon Tyne"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"237","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021042507010567100_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"413","DOI":"10.1086\/603629","article-title":"Bumblebees learn to forage like Bayesians","volume":"174","author":"Biernaskie","year":"2009","journal-title":"Am. 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