Color choices by bumble bees (Bombus terrestris): innate preferences and generalization after learning

By A. Gumbert. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Behavioural plasticity: an interaction between evolution and experience (2010, background): “Gumbert (2000) found that learned preferences for certain flower colours affected latter choices between novel, differently coloured flowers only when the dominant wavelength of one of the new colours could be generalized to the trained flower colour.”
Adaptive radiation and coevolution — pollination biology case studies (2004, background): “Bumblebees possess a neurosensory filtering mechanism tuned to a common colour pattern of bee-visited angiosperm flowers, which enables naive bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) to spontaneously respond to a distinct set of floral signals (Lunau 1991; Lunau et al. 1996; Gumbert 2000), placing their anten”
How plant¿animal interactions signal new insights in communication (2004, background): “The second strategy benefits from a behaviour called ‘colour generalization’, in which pollinators prefer novel colours that are most similar to those that they have learned to associate with rewards [ 11 ].”
Unscented Color Traps for Non-Apis Bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) (2005, background): “Both genera are said to show innate preferences for: violet and green (Giurfa et al., 1995; Gumbert, 2000; Lunau and Maier 1995); and/or blue-violet and yellow (Menzel, 1967; Faegri and van de Pijl, 1980).”
Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, background): “Floral preferences can be overwritten by learning to some degree, but there is evidence that in some situations (for example when rewards are similar across flower species), bees will revert to their initial preferences (Banschbach, 1994; Gumbert, 2000; Heinrich et al., 1977).”
Elevated pan traps to monitor bees in flowering crop canopies (2009, background): “Bee behavior is strongly directed by visual cues in the visible and ultraviolet wavelength ranges, with response to color and pattern controlling location of flowers (Chittka & Menzel, 1992; Kevan et al., 1996; Gumbert, 2000).”
Colour similarity to rewarding model plants affects pollination in a food deceptive orchid, Orchis boryi (2001, background): “The probability of switching between species was increased if both species’ colours choices appears thus generally to be rather broad (Gumbert, 2000).”
POLLINATION SUCCESS IN A DECEPTIVE ORCHID IS ENHANCED BY CO-OCCURRING REWARDING MAGNET PLANTS (2003, result): “However, the results are consistent with those of Wilson and Stine (1996) and Chittka et al. (1997), who both showed that bumblebees are more likely to shift to flowers that are similar in color to those on which they have recently been foraging (see also Gumbert 2000).”
Are bigger brains better? (2009, neutral): “bumblebees [143], fruit flies [91], honeybees [68].”
A population comparison of the strength and persistence of innate colour preference and learning speed in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (2009, background): “…by M. Giurfa T. C. Ings :N. E. Raine (*) : L. Chittka Research Centre for Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK e-mail: n.e.raine@qmul.ac.uk and Real 1991; Smithson and Macnair 1996; Gumbert 2000).”