What floral features do bees learn based on pollen? New paper out!
Anne Leonard
Bees might learn that the colors of petals, anthers, or pollen itself predicts pollen rewards.
In our new Animal Behaviour paper (Muth et al. 2016 or try ResearchGate) , Felicity pushed the study of pollen learning forward by 1) demonstrating that bees can learn based on reinforcement by floral-collected pollen and 2) exploring what features of flowers they can learn, and how long they remember these associations.