The impact of landscape complexity and composition on honey bee visual learning.

ABSTRACT: Over the past few decades there has been an overall decline in the number of pollinators, including wild bees, partly due to stress factors such as the availability of food resources, nest site availability and pesticide usage. Managed honey bees have also been negatively impacted in certain regions, such as the USA. One of the major stress factors facing bees currently is land use change, where natural landscapes are decreasing and often converted to either agricultural or urban land. Here, we assess directly the link between landscape diversity, edge density and honey bee learning, by analysing how honey bee visual learning ability varies across different landscapes, using a field-adapted version of the proboscis extension response. It was previously thought that honey bees from hives ba

SUBMITTER: Hollands G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12268175 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature