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Abstract:

Honeybees, . Apis mellifera, show learned odour preferences for flowers that provide nectar as a reward. However, little is known about such behavioural plasticity when bees exploit pollen sources. Furthermore, the question about whether nectar and pollen foragers use the same learned strategy to improve foraging efficiency remains untested. Here, we demonstrate that honeybee foragers are able to learn odour cues associated with pollen as a reward. This was tested in free-flying bees in a dual-choice feeding device after the bees had gathered pollen from a scented feeder. Free-flying bees that associated odour with pollen successfully recalled these memories in olfactometer odour choice tests in a Y-maze, but they failed to show extension of the proboscis to learned odour cues when restrained (proboscis extension reflex, PER, assay). In addition, odour cues associated with pollen at the feeding site induced foraging reactivation when bees were blown into the hive. In PER assays, after fatty acids were applied to the bees' antennae, pollen foragers were more responsive than nectar foragers. This, in turn, allowed pollen foragers in the PER assay to associate an odour cue with pollen in some trials. On the other hand, the unconditioned response (UR) and the odour-conditioned response (CR) to sucrose and amino acids were similar for both types of foragers. Pollen foragers also showed more URs to fresh pollen of different flower species and even performed better during conditioning with some pollen types as the reward than did nectar foragers. By studying biases in pollen-foraging responses after learning, we provide new insights to help comprehend and characterize the search for food between pollen and nonpollen honeybee foragers. © 2012 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Learned olfactory cues affect pollen-foraging preferences in honeybees, Apis mellifera
Autor:Arenas, A.; Farina, W.M.
Filiación:Grupo de Estudio de Insectos Sociales, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, IFIBYNE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Apis mellifera; Decision making; Honeybee; Olfactory learning; Pollen; bioassay; decision making; fatty acid; foraging behavior; honeybee; nectar; odor; olfactory cue; plant-pollinator interaction; pollen; pollination; sucrose; Apis mellifera; Apoidea
Año:2012
Volumen:83
Número:4
Página de inicio:1023
Página de fin:1033
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.026
Título revista:Animal Behaviour
Título revista abreviado:Anim. Behav.
ISSN:00033472
CODEN:ANBEA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00033472_v83_n4_p1023_Arenas

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Arenas, A. & Farina, W.M. (2012) . Learned olfactory cues affect pollen-foraging preferences in honeybees, Apis mellifera. Animal Behaviour, 83(4), 1023-1033.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.026
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Arenas, A., Farina, W.M. "Learned olfactory cues affect pollen-foraging preferences in honeybees, Apis mellifera" . Animal Behaviour 83, no. 4 (2012) : 1023-1033.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.026
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Arenas, A., Farina, W.M. "Learned olfactory cues affect pollen-foraging preferences in honeybees, Apis mellifera" . Animal Behaviour, vol. 83, no. 4, 2012, pp. 1023-1033.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.026
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Arenas, A., Farina, W.M. Learned olfactory cues affect pollen-foraging preferences in honeybees, Apis mellifera. Anim. Behav. 2012;83(4):1023-1033.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.026