Africanized honey bee response to differences in reward frequency

Çakmak, İbrahim; Cook, Peyton; Hollis, Jeremy; Shah, Naseem; Huntley, Deborah L.; Valkenburg, David Van; Wells, Harrington

doi:10.1080/00218839.1999.11101003

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“…When flowering plants become unavailable in one area, colonies abscond to another where plants are in bloom (Schneider and McNally 1992). Additionally, AHBs demonstrate weaker flower color fidelity than EHBs (Cakmak et al 1999), which also correlates with their propensity to abscond. AHBs also tend to recruit more and might even displace other bees at floral patches (Núñez 1979).…”

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Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts

Couvillon

DeGrandi-Hoffman

Gronenberg

2009

Naturwissenschaften

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Does cognitive ability always correlate with a positive fitness consequence? Previous research in both vertebrates and invertebrates provides mixed results. Here, we compare the learning and memory abilities of Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata hybrid) and European honeybees (Apis mellifera ligustica). The range of the Africanized honeybee continues to expand, superseding the European honeybee, which led us to hypothesize that they might possess greater cognitive capabilities as revealed by a classical conditioning assay. Surprisingly, we found that fewer Africanized honeybees learn to associate an odor with a reward. Additionally, fewer Africanized honeybees remembered the association a day later. While Africanized honeybees are replacing European honeybees, our results show that they do so despite displaying a relatively poorer performance on an associative learning paradigm.

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Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts

Couvillon

DeGrandi-Hoffman

Gronenberg

2009

Naturwissenschaften

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“…3 & 4) as compare to low rewarding feeders. According to the results of Cakmak et al (1999), the action of forager bees altered when they were presented with different reward frequencies associated. But, regardless of comparison, the number of bees visiting high rewarding sites (i.e., 50% sugar solution) decreased in relation with the time (Fig.…”

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Foraging Performance of Honeybee (Apis Mellifera) Affected by Food Richness and Experience

Sharif

Xue

Puswal

2020

Uludağ Arıcılık Dergisi

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For honeybees (Apis mellifera), food richness and experience have significant impacts on making foraging decisions. Bees that trace food-rich source they start establishing spatiotemporal memories, which assist them in revisit the particular site on following days. The present study explored whether different levels of food richness (10%, 30%, and 50% sugar solution, and unrewarding situation) at a feeding source affect the number of forager bees for their visitation and how the previous experiences affect bees for their foraging duration. More bees persist visiting food-rich sources. However, the diminution in food richness consequence a gradual decline in the number of bees, but they persistently visiting feeding sites for several days, even if unrewarded with food-rich sources. Regardless of comparison with the bees visiting a low sugar solution, the number of bees visiting higher sugar solution decreases with the time. The foraging efficiency of bees in terms of trip duration also increased with the experiences of previous visits. In conclusion, bees exhibit considerable attachment with experienced feeding sites that stop providing food anymore, and the duration of the foraging trip decreases with the experience (19 to 2 min one-way trip for 251 m distance). We, in our current findings, confer the implications for future investigation on the research gap concerning the altering foraging situations.

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“…Profitability of a food source is important for bees. When the colour of two flower types was equally attractive (here, blue and white), the Africanized honeybee subspecies, A. m. scutellata, favoured the flower type that offered a reward more frequently, irrespective of whether its harvest rate was equivalent or higher than that of the other flower type (Cakmak et al, 1999). In contrast, when a colour preference existed between two flower types (here, blue or white was preferred to yellow), a change in flower type only occurred when the higher reward frequency was linked to a higher harvest rate.…”

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Uncertainty processing in bees exposed to free choices: Lessons from vertebrates

Anselme¹

2018

Psychon Bull Rev

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Bees tend to avoid or to show indifference to uncertain ("risky") relative to certain ("safe") food rewards, whether in nectar volume or in nectar concentration. The unattractiveness of uncertain food rewards is also sometimes independent of the energy budget of bees. This pattern of responses seems to differ from that observed in mammals and birds, which may exhibit a strong preference for the uncertainty over the certainty of food delivery on a given trial in dual-choice tasks. Upon analysis of the conditions that determine preference and aversion for uncertain food rewards in "higher" vertebrates, I attempt to demonstrate that bees react to uncertainty in a similar way. It is argued that, because of their social organization and of the type of resources they seek, bees are essentially exposed to situations in which "higher" vertebrates find reward uncertainty unattractive as well. The nature of their representation of food distribution is discussed, and it is suggested that scout bees may differ from recruits with respect to uncertainty processing.

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Africanized honey bee response to differences in reward frequency

Cited by 8 publications

References 61 publications

Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts

Africanized honeybees are slower learners than their European counterparts

Foraging Performance of Honeybee (Apis Mellifera) Affected by Food Richness and Experience

Uncertainty processing in bees exposed to free choices: Lessons from vertebrates

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