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iScience, 2022 Summary: Many flying animals parse visual information to control their landing, whereby they can decelerate smoothly by flying at a constant radial optic expansion rate.
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 The sublethal effects of pesticide poisoning will have significant negative impacts on the foraging and learning of bees and bumblebees, so it has received widespread attention.
Qi-He Tang +12 more
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Conserved, yet disruption-prone, gut microbiomes in neotropical bumblebees
mSphere, 2023 Bumblebees are important pollinators in natural ecosystems and agriculture, but many species are declining. Temperate-zone bumblebees have host-specific and beneficial gut microbiomes, which may have a role in mediating the effects of stressors. However,
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Floral Categorization by Bumblebees: The Perceptual and the Functional [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2022 This study examines generalization and perceptual similarity judgments in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) and addresses whether category formation of floral stimuli is based upon perceptual floral features alone or foraging experiences from reward ...
Vicki Xu, Catherine M. S. Plowright
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Humans Share More Preferences for Floral Phenotypes With Pollinators Than With Pests
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Studies on the selection of floral traits usually consider pollinators and sometimes herbivores. However, humans also exert selection on floral traits of ornamental plants.
Victoria Ruiz-Hernández +27 more
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Relational reasoning in wild bumblebees revisited: the role of distance [PDF]
, 2023 In reasoning tasks, non-human animals attend more to relational than to object similarity. It is precisely this focus on relational similarity that has been argued to explain the reasoning gap between humans and other animals.
Martin-Ordas, Gema
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Spontaneous relational and object similarity in wild bumblebees [PDF]
, 2022 Being able to abstract relations of similarity is considered one of the hallmarks of human cognition. While previous research has shown that other animals (e.g.
Martín Ordás, Gema, Martin-Ordas, Gema
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No trade-off between learning speed and associative flexibility in bumblebees: a reversal learning test with multiple colonies [PDF]
, 2012 Potential trade-offs between learning speed and memory-related performance could be important factors in the evolution of learning. Here, we test whether rapid learning interferes with the acquisition of new information using a reversal learning paradigm.
Raine, Nigel E. +8 more
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Cuckoo male bumblebees perform slower and longer flower visits than free-living male and worker bumblebees [PDF]
, 2021 Cuckoo bumblebees are a monophyletic group within the genus Bombus and social parasites of free-living bumblebees, upon which they rely to rear their offspring.
François Massol +14 more
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A failed invasion? Commercially introduced pollinators in Southern France [PDF]
, 2009 The natural diversity of Bombus terrestris subspecies could be under threat from the commercialisation of bumblebees. Therefore, to determine whether commercially imported bumblebees are able to establish and spread, we carried out
Rasmont, P +14 more
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