Spontaneous flower constancy and learning in honey bees as a function of colour
Spontaneous flower constancy and learning in honey bees as a function of colour
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DOI：
10.1006/anbe.1996.0467
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发表时间：
1997-09-01
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影响因子：
2.5
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Wells, H
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作者：
Hill, PSM;Wells, PH;Wells, H
当呈现给蜜蜂的是由蓝色和黄色花梗组成的人造花斑时，个别蜜蜂，意大利蜜蜂，变得对两种Bower颜色中的一种保持不变，甚至很少品尝到另一种颜色。一些蜜蜂只拜访蓝色的花，而另一些蜜蜂只拜访黄色的花。这篇文章描述了没有实验仪器经验的蜜蜂的恒定开始。在3020次访问中，蜜蜂只有17次没有降落在它们第一次降落的花色上，也没有喝到这种颜色的水。这种行为不会因奖励的质量或数量、对实验场地的训练、群体效应或试验期间气味的存在而改变。然而，当我们将蜜蜂训练到一个涂有两种颜色的目标上，然后迫使它们按顺序挑选单形的花斑时，所有的蜜蜂都访问了唯一的颜色：黄色或蓝色。当我们随后同时向这些蜜蜂提供黄色和蓝色的花(奖励选择)时，它们变得恒定。23只蜜蜂中有11只对回报较低的花朵形态表现出了坚定不移的态度，甚至没有对另一种花朵进行取样。这些蜜蜂未能采样，尽管它们之前曾被迫参观另一种花的变种，这种花提供的奖励是卡路里/体积的两倍。因此，蜜蜂的恒定是自发的，但它可以被一些为研究学习而设计的实验方案所隐藏。(C)1997年动物行为研究协会。
When presented with an artificial flower patch of blue and yellow pedicellate flowers, individual honey bees, Apis mellifera L., became constant to one of the two Bower colours, rarely even sampling the alternative colour. Some bees visited only blue flowers while others visited only yellow flowers. This paper describes the onset of constancy for bees that had had no experience with the experimental apparatus. In 3020 visits, bees failed to land on or drink from the flower colour on which they first landed only 17 times. This behaviour was not modified by quality or quantity of reward, training to the experimental site, group effects or presence of odour during trials. However, when we trained bees to a target painted with two colours and then forced them to sample monomorphic flower patches in sequence, all bees visited the only colour present: yellow or blue. When we subsequently offered these same bees yellow and blue flowers simultaneously (rewarded choices), they became constant. Eleven of 23 bees showed constancy to the less rewarding flower morph without even sampling the alternative. Those bees failed to sample even though they had previously been forced to visit the alternative flower morph, which offered a reward with twice the calories/volume. Constancy is thus spontaneous in honey bees, but it can be hidden by some experimental protocols designed to study learning. (C) 1997 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.