NDLI: Do inexperienced bumblebee foragers use scent marks as social information?

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Author	Leadbeater, Ellouise Chittka, Lars
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) foraging in the field typically reject flowers where they detect the olfactory footprints of previous visitors and hence avoid recently emptied inflorescences. A growing number of studies have begun to illustrate that associative learning shapes the development of this process, in both bumblebees and other bee species. This raises the question of what the default response to such marks is, but little is known about how inexperienced foragers use social information. Here, we offered flower-naive bees a choice between scent-marked flowers and unmarked alternatives and found that individuals neither avoided nor preferred marked flowers. Our findings provide no support for ‘hard-wired’ responses to scent marks in bumblebees and highlight the importance of associative learning in shaping social information use to match local circumstances.
Starting Page	915
Ending Page	919
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14359448
Journal	Animal Cognition
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	14359456
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-06-04
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Scent marks Bumblebee foraging Cuticular hydrocarbons Bumblebee learning Social information Evolutionary Biology Behavioural Sciences Human Physiology Zoology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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