No evidence of social learning in a socially roosting butterfly in an associative learning task.

ABSTRACT: Insects may acquire social information by active communication and through inadvertent social cues. In a foraging setting, the latter may indicate the presence and quality of resources. Although social learning in foraging contexts is prevalent in eusocial species, this behaviour has been hypothesized to also exist between conspecifics in non-social species with sophisticated behaviours, including Heliconius butterflies. Heliconius are the only butterfly genus with active pollen feeding, a dietary innovation associated with a specialized, spatially faithful foraging behaviour known as trap-lining. Long-standing hypotheses suggest that Heliconius may acquire trap-line information by following experienced individuals. Indeed, Heliconius often aggregate in social r

SUBMITTER: Moura PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10189306 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature