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Pollen reinforces learning in honey bee pollen foragers but not in nectar foragers
(Company of Biologists, 2020-11-16)
Searching for reward motivates and drives behaviour. In honey bees Apis mellifera, specialized pollen foragers are attracted to and learn odours with pollen. However, the role of pollen as a reward remains poorly understood. ...
Foraging behaviour of birds in an arid sand-dune scrubland in Argentina
(Csiro Publishing, 2005-12)
Studies of the foraging behaviour of birds allow exploration of the mechanisms that structure species assemblages. The major objective of this study was to describe relationships among various components of foraging behaviour ...
Sexual differences in the foraging behaviour of Magellanic Penguins related to stage of breeding
(Csiro Publishing, 2012-05)
Understanding the foraging behaviour of seabirds and its plasticity is vital to establish their role in marine food webs and their use as indicators of change in the availability of prey. The foraging behaviour of penguins ...
A breath of fresh air in foraging theory: The importance of wind for food size selection in a central-place forager
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-09)
Empirical data about food size carried by central-place foragers do not often fit with the optimum predicted by classical foraging theory. Traditionally, biotic constraints such as predation risk and competition have been ...
Flexible foraging decisions made by workers of the social wasp Vespula germanica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in response to different resources: influence of ontogenetic shifts and colony feedback
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2022-07)
Decisions made by foraging animals conform a complex process based on the integration of information from multiple external environmental stimuli and internal physiological signals, which in turn are modulated by individual ...
Correlation between octopaminergic signalling and foraging task specialisation in honeybees
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2021-04)
Regulation of pollen and nectar foraging in honeybees is linked to differences in the sensitivity to the reward. Octopamine (OA) participates in the processing of rewardrelated information in the bee brain, being a candidate ...
Flexible foraging decisions made by workers of the social wasp Vespula germanica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in response to different resources: influence of ontogenetic shifts and colony feedback
(Wiley, 2022-04)
Decisions made by foraging animals conform a complex process based on the integration of information from multiple external environmental stimuli and internal physiological signals, which in turn are modulated by individual ...
Nectar source profitability influences individual foraging preferences for pollen and pollen-foraging activity of honeybee colonies
(Springer, 2019-03)
Abstract: Most foraging honeybees specialize in either pollen or nectar collection, although some do alternate between both resources. Little is known about this behavioral plasticity and the factors that control it. We ...