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Bumblebee social learning can lead to suboptimal foraging choices

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Published in 2018 at "Animal Behaviour"

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.11.022

Abstract: Bumblebees are influenced by socially acquired information when deciding on which flowers to forage. In some circumstances, however, this attraction towards conspecifics may lead to suboptimal foraging performance because the presence of multiple pollinators typically… read more here.

Keywords: suboptimal foraging; lead suboptimal; learning lead; foraging choices ... See more keywords