caa a22 4500 469096543 CHVBK 20180323133032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00319022 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00319022 Honeybees mark with scent and reject recently visited flowers [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Giurfa, Josué Núñez] Summary: Experimental evidence is reported for flower-marking by honeybees (Apis mellifera ligustica) while they were foraging on an artificial patch of flowers yielding a continuous and equal flow of sucrose solution. Honeybees marked with scent and rejected all recently visited and nectar-depleted flowers. The short fade-out time of this scent allowed discrimination of flowers that temporarily provided no food. The repellent nature of this scent mark was demonstrated by the use of an air extractor connected to the patch; when the apparatus was turned on, the rejection behaviour disappeared. The movement pattern of foraging bees also contributed to foraging efficiency, as the probability of an immediate return to the flower just abandoned was very low. However, when a quick repeat visit took place, the presence of the repellent scent-mark promoted rapid rejection. Springer-Verlag, 1992 Honeybee nationallicence Scent-mark nationallicence Movement pattern nationallicence Foraging behaviour nationallicence Foraging efficiency nationallicence Giurfa Martin Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pb. II-Ciudad Universitaria, CP 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut Núñez Josué Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pb. II-Ciudad Universitaria, CP 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut Oecologia Springer-Verlag 89/1(1992-01-01), 113-117 0029-8549 89:1<113 1992 89 442 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00319022 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00319022 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Giurfa Martin Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pb. II-Ciudad Universitaria, CP 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Núñez Josué Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pb. II-Ciudad Universitaria, CP 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Oecologia Springer-Verlag 89/1(1992-01-01), 113-117 0029-8549 89:1<113 1992 89 442 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer