Sebastian Koethe, Lara Reinartz, Tim A Heard, Jair E Garcia, Adrian G Dyer, Klaus Lunau
Bees play a vital role as pollinators worldwide and have influenced how flower colour signals have evolved. The Western honey bee, Apis mellifera (Apini), and the Buff-tailed bumble bee, Bombus terrestris (Bombini) are well-studied model species with regard to their sensory physiology and pollination capacity, although currently far less is known about stingless bees (Meliponini) that are common in pantropical regions. We conducted comparative experiments with two highly eusocial bee species, the Western honey bee, A...
October 21, 2022: Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology