Colonial breeding is widespread among animals. Some, such as eusocial insects, may use
agonistic behavior to partition available foraging habitat into mutually exclusive territories; …

The way pollinators gather resources may play a key role for buffering their population
declines. Social pollinators like bumblebees could adjust their foraging after significant …

Much of the literature on foraging behaviour in bees focuses on what they learn after they
have had rewarded experience with flowers. This review focuses on how honeybees and …

To understand the relative benefits of social and personal information use in foraging
decisions, we developed an agent-based model of social learning that predicts social …

Heterospecific social learning has been understudied in comparison to interactions between
members of the same species. However, the learning mechanisms behind such information …

Caffeine and ethanol are naturally occurring compounds in floral nectar. We examined how
these compounds influenced pollinator behaviors including floral preference, floral …

Interspecific interactions are major drivers shaping ecological communities. Nevertheless,
understanding how and to what extent they affect ecosystem functioning remains a key …

Highlights•Bumblebees' flower preferences are influenced by conspecific choices.•We
tested effects of live and model demonstrators and nonsocial cues.•Prior experience with …

Bumblebees secrete a substance from their tarsi wherever they land, which can be detected
by conspecifics. These secretions are referred to as scent-marks, which bumblebees are …

Social foraging is very common in the animal kingdom. Numerous studies have documented
collective foraging in various species and many reported the attraction of various species to …