Bumble Bees (Bombus terrestris) Use Time-Memory to Associate Reward with Color and Time of Day.

ABSTRACT: Circadian clocks regulate ecologically important complex behaviors in honey bees, but it is not clear whether similar capacities exist in other species of bees. One key behavior influenced by circadian clocks is time-memory, which enables foraging bees to precisely time flower visitation to periods of maximal pollen or nectar availability and reduces the costs of visiting a non-rewarding flower patch. Bumble bees live in smaller societies and typically forage over shorter distances than honey bees, and it is therefore not clear whether they can similarly associate reward with time of day. We trained individually marked bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) workers to forage for sugar syrup in a flight cage with yellow or blue feeders rewarding either during the morning or evening. After tr

SUBMITTER: Gonulkirmaz-Cancalar O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10455649 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature