The Role of Learning in Honey Bee Foraging

Abstract

REVIEW OF ODOR, COLOR, SHAPE, LANDMARK, LOCATION AND TIME LEARNING. discussion of time linkage esp. interesting; one can train to time of day which bees recall well, but they can recall only one conditioned stimulus (e.g., set of color, shape, odor) at a time, and if one element of set (say odor) is changed they must relearn entire association. More generally he argues that relatively complex bee behavior can be understood in terms of some relatively simple learning and neural rules. Discusses neuroselectionist model of bee learning