Floral choices by honeybees in relation to the relative distances to flowers

JAMES H. MARDEN; KEITH D. WADDINGTON

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032.1981.tb00658.x

Floral choices by honeybees in relation to the relative distances to flowers

JAMES H. MARDEN, KEITH D. WADDINGTON

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ABSTRACT. Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) were presented with a series of binary choices between two equally rewarding yellow or blue artificial flowers. When flowers were placed equidistant from each other, the bees maintained high degrees of constancy to one flower colour. When flowers were spaced unequally, the bees most often chose to visit the closest flower, as is predicted by an optimal foraging model.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	431-435
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physiological Entomology
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3032.1981.tb00658.x
State	Published - Dec 1981

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Physiology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Insect Science

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