Search Behavior of Individual Foragers Involves Neurotransmitter Systems Characteristic for Social Scouting.

ABSTRACT: In honey bees search behavior occurs as social and solitary behavior. In the context of foraging, searching for food sources is performed by behavioral specialized foragers, the scouts. When the scouts have found a new food source, they recruit other foragers (recruits). These recruits never search for a new food source on their own. However, when the food source is experimentally removed, they start searching for that food source. Our study provides a detailed description of this solitary search behavior and the variation of this behavior among individual foragers. Furthermore, mass spectrometric measurement showed that the initiation and performance of this solitary search behavior is associated with changes in glutamate, GABA, histamine, aspartate, and the catecholaminergic system in th

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10926421 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature