Individual differences in learning and biogenic amine levels influence the behavioural division between foraging honeybee scouts and recruits.

ABSTRACT: Animals must effectively balance the time they spend exploring the environment for new resources and exploiting them. One way that social animals accomplish this balance is by allocating these two tasks to different individuals. In honeybees, foraging is divided between scouts, which tend to explore the landscape for novel resources, and recruits, which tend to exploit these resources. Exploring the variation in cognitive and physiological mechanisms of foraging behaviour will provide a deeper understanding of how the division of labour is regulated in social insect societies. Here, we uncover how honeybee foraging behaviour may be shaped by predispositions in performance of latent inhibition (LI), which is a form of non-associative learning by which individuals learn to ignore familiar in

SUBMITTER: Cook CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6379132 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature