• Honeybees generalize among pollen scents from plants flowering in the same seasonal period 

      Pietrantuono, Ana Laura; Requier, Fabrice; Fernandez Arhex, Valeria Cristina; Winter, Josefina; Huerta, Guillermo Jose; Guerrieri, Fernando (The Company of Biologists, 2019-11)
      When honey bees (Apis mellifera) feed on flowers, they extend their proboscis to absorb the nectar, i.e. they perform the proboscis extension response (PER). The presence of pollen and/or nectar can be associated with ...