Alarm substances induce associative social learning in honeybees, Apis mellifera

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• 作者：Erika H. Dawson^a ; ^{erika.dawson@egce.cnrs-gif.fr} ; ^{dawson.erika.h@gmail.com} ; Lars Chittka^a ; Ellouise Leadbeater^b
• 关键词：Apis mellifera ; honeybees ; predator avoidance ; social cues ; social learning ; social signals
• 刊名：Animal Behaviour
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：122
• 期：Complete
• 页码：17-22
• 全文大小：349 K
• 卷排序：122

文摘

Honeybees are deterred by conspecific alarm volatiles. Bees were exposed to these alarm volatiles alongside a coloured light. Through associative mechanisms, bees were then deterred by the coloured light. Honeybees are able to socially learn about asocial stimuli through alarm signals.