ArticleBiology letters2022
Dance-communicated distances support nectar foraging as a supply-driven system.
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- Reduced Honeybee Pollen Foraging under Neonicotinoid Exposure: Exploring Reproducible Individual and Colony Level Effects in the Field Using AI and Simulation.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Airborne metofluthrin, a pyrethroid repellent, does not impact foraging honey bees.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2024Article
- High variability in the attractiveness of municipally-planted decorative plants to insects.PeerJ · 2024Article
- A volatilized pyrethroid insecticide from a mosquito repelling device does not impact honey bee foraging and recruitment.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Much like human consumers, honeybees adjust their behaviours based on resources' supply and demand. For both, interactions occur in fluctuating conditions. Honeybees weigh the cost of flight against the benefit of nectar and pollen, which are nutritionally distinct resources that serve different purposes: bees collect nectar continuously to build large honey stores for overwintering, but they collect pollen intermittently to build modest stores for brood production periods. Therefore, nectar foraging can be considered a supply-driven process, whereas pollen foraging is demand-driven. Here we compared the foraging distances, communicated by waggle dances and serving as a proxy for cost, for nectar and pollen in three ecologically distinct landscapes in Virginia. We found that honeybees foraged for nectar at distances 14% further than for pollen across all three sites (
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