Honey bees transfer olfactory memories established during flower visits to a proboscis extension paradigm in the laboratory
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Honey bees display proboscis in response to food source odour encountered during foraging and resistance to its extinction in a proboscis extension reflex paradigm. The olfactory memories established during foraging causes the observed transfer effect with a weak role of contextual parameters and within-hive experience with the scent of harvested food. Differences in behavioral, motivational or affective states of foraging and harnessed bees fail to hinder the retrieval of these memories.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1996
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The identity of the previous visitor influences flower rejection by nectar-collecting bees
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A study has shown that a nectar collecting bee is likely to reject a recently probed flower, only if the previous visitor was a conspecific (honeybees) or congener (bumblebees), with a particularly marked effect in honeybees. The ability to detect recently visited flowers may assist bees in making a foraging profit, particularly when bee densities are high, suggesting that bee-deposited chemicals may provide information and economic advantages.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
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Honey bee spatial memory: use of route-based memories after displacement
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Honey bees are able to detect food and familiar feeding sites after displacement because of their clear perception of the landmarks on routes they have previously travelled. This proves the theory that honey bees use celestial cues or their spatial memory to find their way back home.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
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