Foraging Bumblebees Selectively Attend to Other Types of Bees Based on Their Reward-Predictive Value

• Published in: Insects (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 11; no. 11; p. 800
• Main Authors: Romero-González, Jose E., Royka, Amanda L., MaBouDi, HaDi, Solvi, Cwyn, Seppänen, Janne-Tuomas, Loukola, Olli J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 13.11.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Bees; behavioral flexibility; Bombus; Bumblebees; Conspecifics; Context; Cues; Ethanol; Experiments; Flowers; Foraging behavior; Information retrieval; insects; Learning; Magnets; Personal information; Reinforcement; selective attention; Social behavior; Social discrimination learning; social learning; Sucrose; Thorax; United Kingdom > UK

Using social information can be an efficient strategy for learning in a new environment while reducing the risks associated with trial-and-error learning. Whereas social information from conspecifics has long been assumed to be preferentially attended by animals, heterospecifics can also provide rel...