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The Effects Of Floral And Social Information On Bumblebee Forager Learning And Memory, Avery Hume Baker
The Effects Of Floral And Social Information On Bumblebee Forager Learning And Memory, Avery Hume Baker
Theses
Bumblebees rely on information gathered from their environment to make the best choices they can when foraging for pollen and nectar. The type of information gathered should influence how a bee learns and remembers it, but other factors such as the size of the bee’s brain may also play a role in the learning and remembering process. While social information learned from other organisms and information gathered directly from flowers can each be used alone to improve both the efficiency with which a bee learns to forage from a flower and how accurately and how long the bee remembers these …