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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 265-267Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050664
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honeybee; behavior; foraging; response thresholds; neuroethology
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Division of labor, where thousands of individuals perform specific behavioral acts repeatedly and nonrandomly, is the hallmark of insect societies. Virtually nothing is known about the underlying neurophysiological processes that direct individuals into specific behavioral roles. We demonstrate that sensory-physiological variation in the perception of sucrose in honeybees measured when they are 1 week old correlates with their foraging behavior 2-3 weeks later. Workers with the lowest response thresholds became water foragers, followed with increasing response thresholds by pollen foragers, nectar foragers, bees collecting both pollen and nectar, and finally those returning to the colony empty (water
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