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| Title |
Bumblebees can discriminate between scent-marks deposited by conspecifics
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| Published in |
Scientific Reports, March 2017
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| DOI | 10.1038/srep43872 |
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| Authors |
Richard F. Pearce, Luca Giuggioli, Sean A. Rands |
| Abstract |
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 able to use as social cues. Although it has been found that bumblebees can detect and associate scent-marks with rewarding or unrewarding flowers, their ability at discriminating between scent-marks from bumblebees of differing relatedness is unknown. We performed three separate experiments with bumblebees (Bombus terrestris), where they were repeatedly exposed to rewarding and unrewarding artificial flowers simultaneously. Each flower type carried scent-marks from conspecifics of differing relatedness or were unmarked. We found that bumblebees are able to distinguish between 1. Unmarked flowers and flowers that they themselves had scent-marked, 2. Flowers scent-marked by themselves and flowers scent-marked by others in their nest (nestmates), and 3. Flowers scent-marked by their nestmates and flowers scent-marked by non-nestmates. The bumblebees found it more difficult to discriminate between each of the flower types when both flower types were scent-marked. Our findings show that bumblebees have the ability to discriminate between scent-marks of conspecifics, which are potentially very similar in their chemical composition, and they can use this ability to improve their foraging success. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 12 | 31% |
| United States | 3 | 8% |
| Japan | 3 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 19 | 49% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 29 | 74% |
| Scientists | 9 | 23% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 101 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 101 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 19 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 17% |
| Researcher | 16 | 16% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 13% |
| Unknown | 12 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 53 | 52% |
| Environmental Science | 13 | 13% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Unknown | 17 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 249. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2023.
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