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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE ZOOLOGIE
卷 84, 期 9, 页码 1240-1247出版社
NATL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA-N R C RESEARCH PRESS
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-117
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Bees are at risk of predation from flower-dwelling ambush predators. Since these predators tend to be cryptic, bees trying to mitigate predation risk may need to make use of indirect cues of the predator's presence. For example, they may use cues of past predation events as indirect cues of current predation risk. I conducted a series of experiments that examined how bumblebees (genus Bombus Latreille, 1802) respond to cues of past predation events. In two field experiments, I found that wild rose (genus Rosa L.) flowers containing a freshly killed bumblebee, or the scent of a freshly killed bumblebee, received fewer bumblebee visits than control flowers. To test the possibility that bumblebees in the first two experiments were avoiding cues of competition risk rather than cues of predation risk, captive-reared bumblebees were given a choice between two artificial flowers- one containing a freeze-killed bumblebee (relatively more similar to a live foraging bee) and the other containing a crush-killed bumblebee (relatively more similar to a bee killed by a predator). Most bumblebees chose the flower containing the freeze-killed bee, supporting the hypothesis that the bumblebees in the first two experiments were attempting to avoid predation.
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