The adaptive significance of sensory bias in a foraging context: floral colour preferences in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris.
Innate sensory biases could play an important role in helping naïve animals to find food. As inexperienced bees are known to have strong innate colour biases we investigated whether bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies with stronger biases for the most rewarding flower colour (violet) foraged more...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000556 |