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Optimal foraging in bumblebees: hunting by expectation

Authors: Hodges, C. M.
Year: 1981
Journal: Animal Behaviour, Vol. 29, pp. 1166-1171
Publisher: UNKNOWN
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3472(81)80068-1
Keywords: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, ENTOMOLOGY, OPTIMAL FORAGING, RMBL

Abstract

Predictions of the three hypotheses concerned with hunting by expectation were tested experimentally by varying the quality of plants (amount and distribution of nectar) encountered by bumblebees (Bombus appositus).

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