Identity and Function of Scent Marks Deposited by Foraging Bumblebees

By Dave Goulson, J C Stout, J. Langley, W. Hughes. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2000

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The influence of nectar secretion rates on the responses of bumblebees (Bombus spp.) to previously visited flowers (2002, background): “This could be either through detection of a decaying scent mark (Stout et al. 1998; Goulson et al. 2000) or by direct assessment of nectar levels (Crane 1975; Thorp et al. 1975; Corbet et al. 1979; Williams et al. 1981; Marden 1984).”
Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, background): “For example, bees use the scent marks they deposit when visiting a flower as an olfactory cue to minimize the risk of revisiting recently emptied flowers (Giurfa and Núñez, 1992, 1993; Goulson et al., 2000; Saleh et al., 2006).”
Discrimination of Unrewarding Flowers by Bees; Direct Detection of Rewards and Use of Repellent Scent Marks (2001, background): “In bumblebees, scent marks consist of mixtures of straight-chain alkanes and alkenes, most of them common cuticular hydrocarbons found in a range of insects (Schmitt et al., 1991; Goulson et al., 2001 ).”
Recruitment communication in stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) (2004, background): “Several odor sources can influence forager orientation in social bees: food odor, olfactory signals, cues deposited by foragers, and locale odors—odors of the environment surrounding the food source (von Frisch, 1967; Goulson et al., 2000; Goulson et al., 2001; Dyer, 2002; Nieh et al., 2003b).”