Floral preferences of bumblebees ( Bombus edwardsii) in relation to intermittent versus continuous rewards

Worker bumblebees, Bombus edwardsii, preferably feed from artificial flowers yielding the same (continuous) reward on each visit rather than from flowers yielding variable (intermittent) rewards, even though the long-term expectation of reward is the same at each type of flower. However, variation i...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Animal behaviour 1981-01, Vol.29 (3), p.779-784
Hauptverfasser:	Waddington, Keith D., Allen, Tracy, Heinrich, Bernd
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	animal behavior animal ecology arthropods entomology
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