Sentences with phrase «learning bumblebees»

«Ultimately, the results revealed that fast - learning bumblebees collected fewer resources for the colony over their foraging career,» said Raine, holder of the Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation.

Not exact matches

The study found that infection by the parasite slightly impaired learning in honeybees, however the parasite did not infect bumblebees.

In two tests, researchers offered bumblebees a pair of «flowers,» one that held sugar water and one with a nasty - tasting solution, to see how quickly bees would learn to distinguish sweet from foul.

More experienced bumblebees fly farther, faster and straighter when searching for food than naïve ones, which tend to fly in loops as they learn the best search strategy.

Bumblebees have shown they can learn how to push a ball into a hole to get a reward, staking their claim to be considered tool users

Low levels of pesticides can impact the foraging behaviour of bumblebees on wildflowers, changing their floral preferences and hindering their ability to learn the skills needed to extract nectar and pollen, according to a study co-authored by a University of Guelph professor.

In this new study, the researchers found that, while bumblebees exposed to pesticides collected more pollen than control bees, control bees were able to learn how to manipulate these complex flowers after fewer visits.

Bumblebees can learn to pull strings for food and pass on the ability to a colony, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

In the lab, the researchers used blue and yellow artificial flowers to test the visual learning performance of 85 individual foraging bumblebees from five colonies.

The results reveal that learning is key to buzz pollination, and that the more bumblebees practice, the more pollen they collect over time.

Bumblebees have learned to push a ball into a hole to get a reward, stretching what small - brained creatures were thought capable of.

They may have tiny brains, but bumblebees are capable of some remarkable learning feats, especially when they might get a tasty reward, according to two studies by University of Guelph researchers.

In stark contrast to other studies, where imidacloprid and thiamethoxam were found to be toxic to bumblebee colonies, this study raises the possibility that clothianidin may not exert the same sub-lethal effects on bumblebee learning and memory and so might not be toxic to bumblebee colonies.

Publishing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal a group of researchers have reported that the pesticides that they tested affected the learning of honeybee and bumblebee differently and that this should be accounted for when creating accurate pollination models.

The Polli: Nation project has been developed by Learning through Landscapes in collaboration with other sector partners including The Field Studies Council, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, OPAL Imperial College London, Stirling University, Bumblebee Conservation Trust and The Conservation Volunteers.

Ever since learning to crawl, Sam had followed woodlice to the cracks in the skirting board, knelt by ants as they cleaned up spilt sugar and watched bumblebees bouncing from foxglove to forget - me - not.

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At field realistic doses, neonicotinoids cause a wide range of adverse sublethal effects in honeybee and bumblebee colonies, affecting colony performance through impairment of foraging success, brood and larval development, memory and learning, damage to the central nervous system, susceptibility to diseases, hive hygiene etc..