Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) store both food and information in honeypots

By Anna R. Dornhaus, Lars Chittka. 2005

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. Natalie Hempel de Ibarra
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Citations in the corpus

• Bumble bee pollen foraging regulation: role of pollen quality, storage levels, and odor (2009, background): “Foraging activity increased in Bombus terrestris and Bombus transversalis colonies after foragers returned from nectar collection (Dornhaus and Chittka 2001; Dornhaus and Cameron 2003), and the increase in foraging depended upon food sucrose concentration (Dornhaus and Chittka 2005).”
• Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees (2017, background): “Since foragers unload their own pollen baskets and individually assess brood levels and stored pollen (Dornhaus & Chittka 2005), one might predict that it would be more efficient for bumblebees to possess the ability to individually assess some aspect of pollen quality directly at the flower, to…”