ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2019
Foraging strategies and physiological adaptations in large carpenter bees.
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- Colour preference and foraging constancy in the Asian giant honeybee Apis dorsata.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Effects of Foraging and Provisioning Behavior on Offspring Development in the Ground Nesting Carpenter BeeInsects · 2026Article
- Large carpenter bees show high dispersal in a tropical semi-arid region susceptible to desertification.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Bumblebee nest departures under low light conditions at sunrise and sunset.Biology letters · 2024Article
- The impact of geography and climate on the population structure and local adaptation in a wild bee.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Close encounters of three kinds: impacts of leg, wing and body collisions on flight performance in carpenter bees.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- On the Traceability of Honey by Means of Lanthanide Distribution.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Wild non-eusocial bees learn a colour discrimination task in response to simulated predation events.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
- A hard day's night: Patterns in the diurnal and nocturnal foraging behavior of Apis dorsata across lunar cycles and seasons.PloS one · 2021Article
- Spatial Vision and Visually Guided Behavior in Apidae.Insects · 2019Review
- Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial bees.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Large carpenter bees are charismatic and ubiquitous flower visitors in the tropics and sub-tropics. Unlike honeybees and bumblebees that have been popular subjects of extensive studies on their neuroethology, behaviour and ecology, carpenter bees have received little attention. This review integrates what is known about their foraging behaviour as well as sensory, physiological and cognitive adaptations and is motivated by their versatility as flower visitors and pollinators. This is evident from their extremely generalist foraging and adeptness at handling diverse flower types as legitimate pollinators and as illegitimate nectar robbers. They purportedly use traplining to forage between isolated patches and are long-distance flyers over several kilometres suggesting well-developed spatial learning, route memory and navigational capabilities. They have a broad range of temperature tolerance and thermoregulatory capabilities which are likely employed in their forays into crepuscular and nocturnal time periods. Such temporal extensions into dim-light periods invoke a suite of visual adaptations in their apposition optics. Thus, we propose that carpenter bees are an excellent though understudied group for exploring the complex nature of plant-pollinator mutualisms from ecological and mechanistic perspectives.
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