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Can bees simultaneously engage in adaptive foraging behaviour and attend to cryptic predators?

Authors: Mu-Yun Wang, Thomas C. Ings, Michael J. Proulx, Lars Chittka

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: attention, bombus terrestris, bumblebee, foraging, predator avoidance, predator crypsis, visual search

2013

Temporal reward variability promotes sampling of a new flower type by bumblebees

Authors: Tamar Keasar, Uzi Motro, Avi Shmida

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: artificial flower, bombus, exploitation–exploration trade-off, foraging, handling time, learning, pollination, travel time

2013

Public use of olfactory information associated with predation in two species of social bees

Authors: Eben Goodale, James C. Nieh

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: alarm pheromone, apis mellifera, bombus impatiens, bumblebee, honeybee, interspecific information exchange, predation

2012

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