Assessment of pattern preferences by flower-naïve bumblebees
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Flower choice copying in bumblebees.
We tested a hypothesis originating with Darwin that bees outside the nest exhibit social learning in flower choices. Naive bumblebees, Bombus impatiens, were allowed to observe trained bees or artificial bees forage from orange or green flowers. Subsequently, observers of bees on green flowers landed more often on green flowers than non-observing controls or observers of models on orange flower...
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عنوان ژورنال: Apidologie
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0044-8435,1297-9678
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2007056